Bella Broadley and Elyse Partridge were enjoying a picnic on the beach. Suddenly, a woman came to their group. “We were just having a little picnic at the beach with some girlfriends and this woman came up to us and said, ‘I can’t swim and my girls get caught in the water,’ and we just jumped into action,” Partridge, now age 20, said.
The younger girls, Chloe and Violet, 11, were trapped in the water. To make things worse, it was around 8 p.m. and getting dark. Broadley, 19, said, “I was just swimming out and thinking, ‘Oh my gosh, how am I going to get back in? This is bad. ’ But luckily I had the cooler lid(盖子) for part of the way to keep my head above the water and once I got to Violet I just swam for my life.” Broadley handed the cooler lid off to Chloe and swam further out to get Violet. Partridge was close behind, and swam Chloe back to shore.
“I remember just grabbing my arms around her and trying to swim in, but we ended up hitting the rocks,” Partridge said. “I ended up having lots of cuts all over my hands from the rocks but obviously I’m fine and it would have been scarier in the water.”
Eventually both girls were guided back to safety. Later, Chloe and Violet described that they felt increasingly tired by their fight to keep their heads above water. Violet needed to spend the night in hospital.
Bystanders and police told Broadley and Partridge that without their help, the younger girls would likely not have survived. On Wednesday, the two heroes have been awarded Bravery Medals by the Governor-General of Australia.
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