Rescuing a flying-fox in a flooded building site: this is Billabong

Billabong is a juvenile male Grey-Headed Flying-Fox who somehow ended up crash landing into a flooded carpark pit in a building site. Our clever little Billabong managed to climb up onto a rough level of concrete and clutch on until rescue. The lovely tradie (tradesman in Aussie lingo) was employed to pump out the 2 metres of water in the car park and noticed out batty and call for rescue, and also assisted by removing a fence panel and hung onto the back of my overalls while I was leaning over rescuing our little guy to ensure I didn't fall in. Really - it looked a toxic pond of building waste and chemicals like lime and mortar and I don't like getting wet. Billabong has been started on antibiotics to combat anything he may have inhaled during his little dip. Hang in there Billabong and pull through this. A billabong in Australia is a blind channel leading out from a river or a usually dry streambed that is filled seasonally; a backwater forming a stagnant pool. The term billabong comes from the Wiradjuri word 'bilabang' which translates to 'lake'. The Wiradjuri language is from the Aboriginal Wiradhuric tribe, located in New South Wales. The section bila translates to 'river', whereas the bang refers to 'continuing in time or space'.