As 2019 comes to an end, the Guardian News is looking back at the most popular stories from the year that was.
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From January, the painful encounter Bowraville's Julee Townsend had with a bullrout was number one ...
The story was published on January 28, 2019.
Julee told the Guardian's Stephen Katte what happened:
"I go swimming down at the creek all the time, I usually swim with shoes because I know bullrouts are around, but that day I wasn't," she said.
"I slipped, and my hand went between two rocks, there was quite a bit of pain. I thought I had just hurt my hand, bruised it, or done the tendons in my finger - but it kept getting worse."
The lack of spines and puncture marks on her hand meant Julee didn't realise what had happened until it was nearly too late ...
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