Please let us know you're safe mum

Mother of four Vera Stockwell has been missing for four days. Picture: Marc Mccormack Source: Cairns Post

THE distraught family of missing woman is holding out hope the mother-of-four has taken a road trip rather than come into harm's way.

Brother Don Stockwell is pleading for 35-year-old Vera Stockwell, who he described as a "happy-go-lucky sort of person", to make contact with the family after she was last seen walking west along Wiseman Rd, Edmonton, Cairns, between 5pm and 6pm on Monday.

"We all love you and we all want you back here," Mr Stockwell said was the message he wanted to convey to his sister, the Cairns Post reported.

He said Ms Stockwell had never been missing for such a long period of time and her four children, aged between 11 and 18, the youngest of which was the last to see her, were extremely anxious.

"It has been since Monday hey, it has never been that long," he said.

"The kids are the main thing, they don't know what is going on."

Ms Stockwell's sister, Sarah Cook, said she had put notices along the highway and talked to truck drivers when she travelled from Townsville to Cairns earlier in the week, but there were still no clues.

She said Vera may be making her way down the coast, staying at caravan parks and camping grounds.

"She loves fishing and camping and that; she would be staying off the highway so if anyone sees her at any headlands or anything like that (contact police)," Ms Cook said.

Ms Cook said police were searching near Behana Gorge, south of Cairns, yesterday.

Anyone with information that could assist police with the investigation should contact Crime Stoppers anonymously on 1800 333 000 or crimestoppers.com.au.

Andi Plinplan