A Tasmanian man has been reunited with his surfboard, which he lost in strong swell.
The catch? The surfboard was found four years later, and almost 3,000 kilometres away.
The man was surfing the islet of Pedra Branca off the state’s southern coast when he was forced to ditch his surfboard thanks to a monster wave heading his way.
The man finally learned of the surfboard’s fate nearly four years later, when two tourists from Magnetic Island visited Tasmania, and mentioned to some locals how their sons had found a surfboard floating in the water, which was figured out to belong to a local.
The tourists are now coordinating with the man to have the board returned to him.