A pair of travellers are spending some unplanned nights at the Sundowner Hotel in Quambone after their motorhome became bogged near the Macquarie Marshes last Monday 12 September.

Kit Peters (72) and his wife Nancy were plucked from their stranded vehicle by a helicopter rescue team after four nights stuck in the mud.

The couple had been traveling from Walgett towards Quambone via Carinda when they took a side road to Sandy Camp, with hopes of reaching the Marshes.

"The road had been a bit bumpy and rutted, but there had only been a couple of muddy patches," Mr Peters said.

"About 25 kilometres down we came to a pretty boggy patch and we could see further up an even boggier-looking patch."

"I made the mistake of stopping," he said.

"We were in two wheel drive until then so I let my tyres down a bit and put it in four wheel drive but got really bogged."

A mob of curious cattle took an interest in the Peters' predicament and surrounded the vehicle.

"We played them some classical music which they seemed to like," Kit said. "But they were making a worse mess around us so we chased them away."

The couple have been on the road since 2017 after renting out their home on Sydney's northern beaches and were well equipped with food, water and solar power when they got stuck.

Air retrieval team arrive. IMAGE: Kit Peters YouTube

Mr Peters said that he had hoped to wait until the road dried a bit and manoeuvre out.

"We had plenty of food and water so could have seen out another few days easily," he said.

"The fact is I'm a one-legged person and my wife has a broken foot at the moment, making it really impossible to walk through the bog. "Every time I walked through the mud it pulled my leg off."

"We realised we were going to need help," he said.

The Peters made contact with Police stations in Walgett and Coonamble as well as Kathy Smith at the Quambone Store.

"I rang SES on Thursday morning for them but Kit thought it would dry out so he rang Police and had it cancelled," Mrs Smith said.

"I talked him into re-instating it that evening but the Police had gone home so I told him to ring the Carinda Pub on Friday night to see if they could find someone to help get them out."

"Luckily the SES lady Carli, was there and she tried to get to them by land on Saturday morning."

Nancy Peters safely on board the helicopter with the Careflight crew. IMAGE: Kit Peters YouTube.

The SES volunteer was accompanied by local residents 'Squatter' and 'Bronco' but the track had deteriorated and they were unable to pull the motorhome out.

With the Macquarie River and local creeks like the Merri Merri and Marthaguy on the rise they became uneasy about the couple's safety, fearing that the road they were on could go under water with the expected peak in floodwaters.

To the rescue. IMAGE: Kathy Smith

The rescue helicopter was called and a four-man Careflight crew arrived from Bankstown just before sunset on Saturday 17 September.

They dropped Kit and Nancy in to the Quambone Village where they were met by local Ambulance who gave them the all-clear.

Ambulance staff met the couple when they landed in Quambone. Image: Kathy Smith

Now the Peters are waiting to find some way of extricating their vehicle before the next predicted rain event on Wednesday.

"They are the third lot of people to get stuck there in that same area in the past three weeks," Mrs Smith said.

She says the others had been hauled out by local residents.

This shot from the rescue helicopter shows why concerns were held about further rises in floodwaters that are expected in the next few days. IMAGE: Kit Peters Youtube.

Although Kit Peters blames his own 'stupidity' for their situation, he does say there was no warning that the section of road was impassable.

"There were a couple of damp patches but it was a perfectly acceptable track," he said. "Apart from being a bit rutted and bumpy it didn't cause any problems. We've been on a lot worse than that."

"There was nothing that we had easy access to to say that the road was closed."