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"It's the luckiest kangaroo in the world." 🦘❤️ Mobile phones can be crucial during emergencies, but it was only because of a black spot that this joey was able to see daylight again, after getting stuck in an old underground water tank. Martin Greenwood is a construction superintendent at a new golf course and club project outside Penneshaw on South Australia's Kangaroo Island, and was on-site when he needed to make a call. "I was walking around and I let the dog out for a run and as I walked up to it, I heard this scurrying noise, It was sort of overgrown with trees and I looked in and there was just this little joey there." The kangaroo had fallen down what appeared to be an underground water storage tank resembling a small well that Mr Greenwood believed could date back to colonial times. Fearing the joey in question was facing a similar fate, Mr Greenwood called the nearby Kangala Kangaroo and Wildlife Rescue, a fauna protection service established at Nepean Bay in the wake of the island's devastating 2020 bushfires. Kangala's Jared and Lisa Karran made their way over and inspected the scene before embarking on a delicate retrieval operation. "All I could hear was something move down in the water. It wasn't until I got the ladder out and climbed down that I could see what it was — that's when I realised it was a little female joey. "It wouldn't surprise me if she'd been down there for three, four or five days." @kangala_rescue have shared this update of the little joey recovering over the weekend. ‘I’ve been snuggling in my basket with the fire going and watching people on the tv talk about my amazing rescue. Thank you to everyone how cares about me.’ 💚💚 🔗 Read more via the link in our bio. 📷: @kangala_rescue #ABCMyPhoto #AnimalRescue #Kangaroo #Joey #KangarooIsland #ABCNews #ABCAustralia #SouthAustralia