Kai Bates surfing a PNG tidal bore - video

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Stu Nettle (stunet)
Swellnet Dispatch

Kai Bates, a SUP specialist from the NSW south coast, gets an unlikely call from a French TV production team filming a documentary on rivers. Kai meets them in PNG to surf the Digul River tidal bore.

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indo-dreaming Wednesday, 6 Apr 2016 at 12:15pm

Looks pretty average but would be good to surf a tidal bore just once to tick of the bucket list.

BTW. The Digul river is in West Papua not PNG, hence the Susi air plane.

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fitzroy-21 Wednesday, 6 Apr 2016 at 2:31pm

Daly River in the NT. Smaller, but with crocs and barra...............

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freerider. Wednesday, 6 Apr 2016 at 4:40pm

even on a tidal bore--sups still look lame...

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Hako o hakonde ... Wednesday, 6 Apr 2016 at 8:21pm

Actually I thought it looked fun.

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wellymon Wednesday, 6 Apr 2016 at 8:58pm

Likewise Bikini.

Good on the little fella for having an awesome journey like that.

I bet he was peaking when the boat left him to the crocs. haha
Character building IMO;)

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tango Wednesday, 6 Apr 2016 at 6:16pm

Has anyone ever pointed out the inconsistency between your attitude and your screen name, "Free"rider? 'Spose everyone's a freerider...as long as they ride a shorty?

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Tarzan71 Thursday, 7 Apr 2016 at 10:10am

Any one can ride whatever they want, wherever they want to, just so long as its not my missus, daughter, bikes or boards they want to have a shot of.

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spenda Thursday, 7 Apr 2016 at 11:46am

Tarzan, you left yourself out of that comment. ya cheeky devil.

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Tarzan71 Thursday, 7 Apr 2016 at 4:17pm

haha, mate they can try to ride me if they want, but they might bleed to death gaining the experience!!
Good pick up though, thanks