What a time to be alive.
Into every life a little self-destructive kangaroo must fall but it usually happens later when people are more mature, better able to handle the situation, which makes Lillian Bee Young’s heroism all the more impressive.
The seventeen-year-old, who just received her stripes as an official surf lifesaver in Yamba on the north of Australia’s New South Wales, was on duty when a kangaroo began to act erratically.
“My other workmate, Carissa and I, we were sitting on the tractor and she goes, ‘Oh my God, there’s a kangaroo jumping off the rocks!’ and we were just figuring out what we should do … because we’ve never had that happen before,” she told Australia’s ABC News.
The kangaroo, maybe experiencing personal difficulties at home, refused to swim to shore after jumping into the surf but Lillian was not going to let it drown on her watch. She quickly grabbed a board and sprinted into action.
I was trying to figure out how, if I needed to, get it on the board … but also it’s a wild animal … even though you’re helping I wouldn’t want it to hurt me or make it more stressed out,” she said, adding, “It was quite a windy day, very choppy. I paddled behind it and sort of guided it into the beach.”
When the kangaroo bounded up the sand cheers broke out amongst worried onlookers.
What a time to be alive.
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going into 5th semester on ytu…
“What’s that Lillian??? . . . . . . . . Skippy’s in trouble ???? “
I used to do a routine to amuse the kids in the car, about ‘Flippy the Bush Dolphin’.
He’d show up randomly in rural Australia to warn Timmy about someone in danger but then die a slow horrible death as he dried out and suffocated on the brutal outback dust, chirping his last as the theme tune started up.
Well, it amused me.
Whats that skip?Trouble at the old mill?
Terrible waste of resources. Selfish Kangarooo
Didn’t see much saving going on there. It did look like the little bugger just wanted to go for a swim, the clubby did just about nothing.
One of those classic Feel Good Stories that the media slip in after feeding you all the nasty shit about Covid, and Cyclones etc
Funnily enough when my Grandmother’s childhood Kangaroo drowned the dog it didn’t even make the local paper because the town she lived in was so insignificant that when the tin mine finally closed it disappeared along with its inhabitants
Kangaroos could dominate modern surfing-they have that heavy back foot AND an effortless air game
Yeah but their third leg is like, cheating.
Tail grabs would become a standard maneuver
Plus they’re always right in the pocket.
But it made your children and keeps their mum happy ! ….ooops you were talking about the kangaroo ?
Could probably hold their own if push comes to shove .There is a Bloody Big Kangaroo that hangs out on the Bendalong , Manyana stretch who would give any local enforcer a run for his or her money . I was on my way to shops and the bugger was just taking it easy on the footpath , standing at least a foot taller than the oversized higher car I was in . Though herbivores , they like a fight and my grannies kangaroo drowned an annoying dog in a small dam on their property …..just backed in and then held Fido under .
But was the kangaroo vaxxed and what does he/she/it/they think about Novak playing in the Aussie Open?
Trying to escape Novax.
Hell kill us all!!!
Ian is getting a bit shaky in his old age.
Rock hop..
I knew it ……sorry Polynesians , apologies Peruvians …..
SCIENTIFIC DATA PROVES THAT AUSTRALIAN MARSUPIALS INVENTED SURFING !
Jump off the rocks , catch a wave in ….. run around , repeat ….it just makes so much sense .
Before you right my hypothesis off remember the words of the great German Scientific Adventurer Alexander Von Humboldt ;
“There are three stages of scientific discovery: first people deny it is true; then they deny it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.”
The most absurd thing about this whole affair is that Wallaby Bob caught this wave at Iluka which everyone knows has absolutely NO WAVES !
Hmmmm, I’d rather be a lidder than a clubbie.
The girl is trying to become a pro surfer and pro life guard seems to have replaced « non traditional medicine deliverer « in a budding young pro surfer’s CV ?