BY IAN CROUCH
Two men have been rescued after their kayak sank in the wetlands at Wallsend.
Police say they received a mobile phone call from one of the men just before 3.00am on Tuesday requesting urgent assistance, saying their kayak had sunk in waist-deep water about a kilometre from Sandgate Road.
Newcastle Fire Command says rescue crews found the pair in swamp land behind The Gardens greyhound track at about 4.30am and took about 30 minutes to walk them out to dry land.
The men are being treated for hypothermia.
It's not known at this stage why the men were out kayaking in the wetlands in the middle of the night.
