A GOLD Coast father and amateur surfer has put Bondi Rescue, Bondi Vet and Steve Irwin to shame with an early morning beach rescue of a drowning kangaroo.
Neil McCallum, 48, was on a morning walk with his son, Jazz, 15, about 6am on Tuesday along Kirra Beach when a juvenile roo bounded across his path, dived into the surf and started swimming out to sea.
Concerned that two hammerhead sharks had been in the same spot in recent days, the pair kept an eye on the roo until it got caught in a rip.
The stranded kangaroo surfing to safety.
“A guy came up and said: ‘Gee your dog’s a long way out’,” Mr McCallum said yesterday. “I said: ‘That’s not a dog, that’s a kangaroo’.”
So Mr McCallum, a father of three and a professional circuit speaker, dashed home, grabbed his long board and returned to the rescue.
“It was very frightened by the time I got to it. I grabbed it on the back and it sort of shook me off like a wild animal. So I tried to wrestle him on to my surfboard and he found it difficult to stay on board.”
Eventually he herded the roo into a sand bar where it recovered before bounding away.
Mr McCallum said he’d never seen a kangaroo in the area before, only bush turkeys and, yesterday morning, a koala.
Mr McCallum’s wife, incident on the family video camera and the footage will be shown exclusively on Seven’s Today Tonight this evening.
View the video here http://au.video.yahoo.com/watch/5068353/13464810
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Well I say; a silly risk of human life. A whole box of .22s is less than two dollars!
That's pretty cool!
Where do you get a box of .22's for $2.00 ? You obviously have not purchased any in a long time pal.
That's what you call compassion. Great stuff.
Hi Jeff. Thanks for confirming my fears. Toronto’s been overly Americanized. (Also, rot, you git.)
To the Great Frank. THANK YOU
LIved in Ottawa (Hooterville) for two years. Some extremely self -righteous people living there. Not Steven Harper however.
How dare you speak that way to the Torontostan Soulutrean Ambassador! He runs our council and reports on the Beringians in Turtle Island! He is a man of the highest Solutrean character! You are obviously a Beringian!
To the Great Frank- THANK YOU!
Come on boys, I didn’t mean to start a turf war here. The guy just saved the young ‘roo from drowning. No big deal really.
Respect! :)
This is a great video, it’s gotten a lot of hits.