“I was just sitting out the back waiting for a wave, and something hit me from behind and knocked me off my board and hit my leg,” he told the ABC.
“I only saw its head for a split second, because I didn’t really know what was going on, so I just saw it for a split second and then it swam off.”
The teenager then rode his bike 2km home, before his parents insisted he go to hospital.
“I had some breaky as well before I headed to the hospital,” Cameron said.
“Put some Betadine on it, had some food, went to the hospital.”