Police have fined two men who had to be rescued from an Australian forest after they were startled by a deer while nude sunbathing on a beach and became lost.
The men called for help about 6pm on Sunday after they became lost in the Royal National Park south of Sydney, a police statement said today.
"Unbelievably, we saw two men sunbaking naked on a beach on the South Coast," Police Commissioner Mick Fuller told reporters. "They were startled by a deer, ran into the national park ... and got lost."
Their rescue involved police aircraft, the State Emergency Service and ambulance officers.
The men, aged 30 and 49, were fined $1073 (A$1,000) each for breaching a stay-home pandemic order that restricted them to Sydney, police said.