Barney's Journey

The Brahman bull takes a trip:

Through an amazing stroke of luck, and perhaps some bovine bravado, Barney survived an 87km journey through raging creeks and rivers during the weekend's wild floods.

He was washed away by a wall of water from the banks of Hopping Dick Creek on his Limpinwood property about 2am on Sunday and was considered lost before being found alive and well seven hours later near the mouth of the Tweed River – almost 90km downstream.

A passer-by at the Fingal ocean entrance spotted the exhausted and shellshocked Barney floating toward the sea and alerted park rangers.