Surfer saves kangaroo from rough surf on South Coast

A surfer leapt into action, dragging a distressed kangaroo from pounding waves at a Bawley Point beach yesterday (15 January).

Brendan Riddick was walking up the beach following a surf at around 1 pm when he spotted the kangaroo struggling to keep its head above water about 30 metres offshore at a popular swimming spot at Gannet Beach.

Still wearing his wetsuit and with his surfboard in tow, he swam out to the roo and managed to pull it into the shallows before dragging it up the beach by its tail.

“It looked like it was swimming ok in the calm rock pool area, but then it started drifting out into the current and was getting taken out to the point. I thought, geez, if I don’t go in there, that poor thing is going to drown,” Brendan said.

Video: Natalie Cannon.