MICK’S JUST BRIMMING WITH CARE
SURFING champion Mick Fanning revealed his ecowarrior streak on the beach at Rainbow Bay yesterday.
The recently retired threetime world champion was spotted rescuing a small fish which had become stranded on a sand bank.
Amateur photographer Leisa Oakes started snapping shots of Fanning when she saw him trying to pick up the slippery fish.
“I wondered what he was doing, then I realised he was trying to pick up this little bream which had flipped up on to the sand,” said the Tweed Heads resident who goes by @natures_jewel.
“It kept slipping out of his hands so he started scooping up with sand on to his board.
“He eventually got it back into the water. It was pretty funny.”
Fanning is an ambassador for WildArk, a conservation group that aims to protect as much of the world’s biodiversity as possible.