Not to be outdone by yesterday’s koala in a Christmas tree, a kangaroo has been found splashing about at an Adelaide beach today.
Brighton local, Paul Kennedy, spotted the kangaroo around 5.30am while out on his daily walk along Brighton Beach.
“Straight in front of me a kangaroo hopped from the road, across the sand and straight into the water and started paddling out,” Mr Kennedy told Nine News.
Brighton Surf Lifesaving Club members were facing a very unique visitor situation when they arrived for patrol duties.
“We saw it and thought it was a dog, then realised it was a kangaroo,” said lifeguard Dayna Blyth.
“We gave it a rescue tube to see if it would hold onto it, and it tried, so then I jumped in the water and pushed it up onto the sand.”
But once safely back onshore, the young kangaroo simply turned around and hopped back into the surf for second swim.
“We got our boat as close as we could next to it and I literally just lent over and pulled it into the boat as you would with any other rescue,” lifeguard Regan Smallacombe told Nine News.
After two rescue attempts by the surf crews, the kangaroo was finally brought to land.
The only safe place to keep the kangaroo was an empty bin at the lifesaving club, where it’s now waiting for an animal rescue group to collect it.
