The Westpac Rescue Helicopter team says they winched a woman to safety from an isolated rock shelf at Wategos Beach Sunday morning.
The woman in her 30s was reportedly surfing when she was washed onto rocks around ten am.
The helicopter’s critical care paramedics took her to a local sports oval where NSW Ambulance paramedics met them and took her to Byron Bay Hospital with minor injuries.
Authorities this week are warning of dangerous surf and rock-fishing conditions along the northern NSW coastline with Cyclone Alfred still off the coast of Queensland.
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