With its sweeping white-sand beaches and the colourful coral of the Great Barrier Reef, lush rainforests and amazing wildlife, Queensland is a veritable paradise.
A miner and his partner have rescued a woman who was left paralysed after a suspected stingray puncture to her leg at a popular Mackay beach. Rural View residents Jason McGarrigle and Kristy Jordan were sightseeing at Cape Hillsborough about lunchtime on Friday when they spotted the woman dragging her leg. When we got there, she was laying in the sun getting dehydrated, Mr McGarrigle said. She couldn t walk, there was no way in the world. At first, she couldn t tell me what she was stung by. In around her ankle, there was a lot of blood. At first it wasn t too bad, she only had a little pain.