{"id":736812,"date":"2022-01-05T23:35:28","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T23:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/05\/watch-lifeguard-17-rescues-struggling-kangaroo-at-australian-beach\/"},"modified":"2022-01-05T23:35:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T23:35:28","slug":"watch-lifeguard-17-rescues-struggling-kangaroo-at-australian-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/05\/watch-lifeguard-17-rescues-struggling-kangaroo-at-australian-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Lifeguard, 17, rescues struggling kangaroo at Australian beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Lifeguard-17-rescues-struggling-kangaroo-at-Australian-beach.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fabcnews.au%2Fvideos%2F1850307641824801%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=560&amp;t=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Jan. 5 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A 17-year-old lifeguard at an Australian beach rescued a kangaroo that got caught in rough surf and had trouble paddling back to shore.<\/p>\n<p>Lillian Bee Young said it was only her fourth day as a lifeguard at Iluka, a beach situated inside Bundjalung National Park on the north coast of New South Wales, when she saw a kangaroo jump off the rocks into the rough surf.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My other workmate, Carissa and I, we were sitting on the tractor and she goes, &#8216;Oh my God, there&#8217;s a kangaroo jumping off the rocks!&#8217; and we were just figuring out what we should do,&#8221; Young told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.<\/p>\n<p>Young said the kangaroo appeared to be attempting to avoid some nearby fisherman when it ended up in the water. She said the animal seemed to be having difficulty finding a path back to shore.<\/p>\n<p>The lifeguard got onto her rescue board and paddled out to the kangaroo&#8217;s location.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was quite a windy day, very choppy,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I paddled behind it and sort of guided it into the beach.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Young said her first rescue as a lifeguard was a highly unusual one.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was quite special. There were people cheering and clapping,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>A confused kangaroo was rescued from the cold waters of Canberra&#8217;s Lake Burley Griffin in September when bystanders saw it struggling. Bystander David Boyd captured video of two men working to get the marsupial back to dry land.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 5 (UPI) &#8212; A 17-year-old lifeguard at an Australian beach rescued a kangaroo that got caught in rough surf and had trouble paddling back to shore. Lillian Bee Young said it was only her fourth day as a lifeguard at Iluka, a beach situated inside Bundjalung National Park on the north coast of New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":736813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}