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A 13-year-old girl is recovering in a Perth Hospital after being mauled in an almost unheard of attack by a sea lion on a West Australian beach.
Ella Murphy was savaged by the sea lion on Friday as she was being towed on a surfboard behind a speedboat at Lancelin, north of Perth.
Boat driver and family friend Chris Thomas said the sea lion attacked the teenager twice before he was able to drag Ella to safety.
"The sea lion has come straight up at her on a collision course on the wave and leapt out of the water and grabbed her on the head in its mouth," he told the Seven Network.
Ella underwent emergency surgery on Saturday after the sea lion left her with significant injuries to her jaw.
"She's got a huge hole underneath her chin here, she's lost three teeth and quite a severe amount of bone," mother Michelle Forbes said.
However, her injuries could have been far more serious, the sea lion's bite reportedly missed a vital artery by just one millimetre.
Her father, Martin Guggenheimer, said Ella was lucky to have survived the attack.
"You nearly get eaten by a wild animal like that ... and they think she could have been, you know she's very lucky to be alive," he said.
Ella's Doctors have also expressed amazement that her jaw wasn't broken in the attack while her braces have been credited with saving many of her teeth.
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Town of 1770 Gateway to the Great Barrier Reef
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Common misspelling of Accommodation
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Agnes Water often called Agnes Waters and it is common for Lady Musgrave Island to be called Lady Musgrove Island and Captain Cook to Captian Cook and Capitan Cook or Captan Cook, with the Town of Seventeen Seventy now known as 1770 that would be hard to misspell for anyone. The correct spelling of Bundaburg Queensland, is Bundaberg. | | | | |
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The Great Barrier Reef
The Great Barrier Reef runs along the Australian Queensland Coast, there are many towns from Central Queensland to Far North Queensland that offer Great Barrier Reef tours, such as fishing, scuba diving, snorkelling, cruises to Great Barrier Reef Islands, even Reef Walking and Surfing, some Islands on the Great Barrier Reef offer accommodation from Resort Style to Camping. The Southern End of the Great Barrier Reef begins from the Town of 1770 on the Queensland Discovery Coast, and extends North past Cairns, Port Douglas and Cook Town.
You will find places on this site that offer all of the above on The Great Barrier Reef as well as inland Rural areas, such as Mining Towns, Farm Stays and National Parkes, Gorges, Mountian Retreats and Beachside Towns. Use the Navigation links & Directories, if you prefer an other Langauge besides English you can click on your Counties Flag on the top right to translate all pages on Lets Connect to your prferred langauge.
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