Originally published at: A family goes fishing and finds a paddling kangaroo who needs help | Boing Boing
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How far out was it? They’re generally excellent swimmers.
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The Australian equiavalent of the American deer-on-ice pusher
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Swimmers cramp. Should not have eaten so close to going swimming 
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Kangaroo, “I wuz almost feckin’ there, y’bastid! An’ then y’drag me back!” 
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Kangaroo, later that day, to his buddies:
“So I was really out there deep working on my long-distance swimming, had a good burn going, and suddenly I was kidnapped by this boat of joyriding brigands and towed back to the beach. I couldn’t do much about it while it was happening, but believe you me I stood there in the shallows giving them the stink eye for quite a while as they motored away.”
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Yeah, and the roo doesn’t really appear to be struggling until they try to grab it.
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I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought this.
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Later that day the family rescued a Great White Shark struggling for life in a nearby eucalyptus forest.
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Underneath the water was a very disappointed crocodile thinking, “Dammit that was my lunch!”
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“What’s that, Timmy? Skippy’s fallen in the creek?”
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That was totally the impression I got from the roo at the end! Kind of like, “you guys! I was halfway there!”
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Rescued, only to be eaten by a drop bear later that day.
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It was later identified as a rare Saltwater Roo.
Deelicious - and you don’t have to brine them!
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It was really far out man.
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There is a dam on my property where a mob of around 30 kangaroos gather. Yes they can swim but even on the hottest day I have never seen one boing into the dam to cool down.
If attacked by a dog kangaroos will lure them into water and then drown them. Fair call, adapting to an introduced species - probably dingoes would be an indigenous predator that they would have to deal with.
The remarkable thing for me was that this young roo let a human rescue it!! Kangaroos are very skittish around humans, I’ve seen a roo with road trauma injuries further injure itself trying to get away from a well meaning human rescue.
Seeing this guy not struggle was pretty profound for me… no sign of struggle and giving itself up to a life saving intervention.
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I much prefer the narrative of a successful rescue, so I’ll go with it.
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Yep agreed!
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It did look exhausted as well as nervous, perhaps it was too tired to struggle.
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And for everyone wondering why he didn’t just haul it into the boat (with the kids)…
Perhaps @anyhoo can comment on this, but I found out when I was in Australia that kangaroos can be real dicks. Even the small ones. I had one that was probably no more than 25-30# grab me and try to wrestle me down. It was a new recruit at a small rescue facility, but he was apparently feeling pretty well…
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