Sailing, Surfing and other things waterbased

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMmG6rmfXGA

From another forum, its amazing!

Everyone knows that Indonesia shelters the best ocean waves in the world but not a single surfer's soul knew that you could find there tidal bore waves, as powerful as brazilian Pororoca or the chinese Guanchao ? A team of "boreriders" lead by Antony YEP Colas, just found that amazing jungle river wave, which you can't even find listed in the 55 rivers of the Tidal Bore Research Society (www.tidalbore.info).

On the East side of Sumatra, there is the Bono, as the Kampar river dwellers call it, who actually fear that phenomenon since it has taken many lives in the past. Despite the lack of tide charts and any accurate infos, Bagé, the french-Brazilian pro longboarder as well as Fabrice Colas and Patrick Audoy, both very experienced with the Dordogne "mascaret", decided to hit that mysterious bore. Which was supposedly pretty weak during the day because it turned out at the last minute that diurnal inequality would mean that the daily Bono should only remain in the 1-2ft range while the nightly Bono would get 6ft ! Despite its supposedly low power, the diurnal Bono turned out to generate much power with 6-8ft faces peak at its "epicenter". With several sections lasting a few dozens of minutes and one peticuliar ride that has been recorded above the 1hour mark, the Bono also offered the first barrel ride on photo !

But the trip almost became a disaster when on Day 2, both Zodiacs, which had been specially shipped from Jakarta, had been slashed with knives ! Apparently, some guys involved with forestry could not believe that we only came down to ride the bono and thought we were making some scouting for Greenpeace. The fact is that a Greenpeace settlement have been burned last April just opposite the village. Only one of both Zodiacs could be properly fixed then the plywood floor got busted on Day 3 while cruising the Bono waves with 5 heavy guys ! Fortunately, we were sitting next to one of the best tropical wood stock in the world ! At last, we could ride the best tidal bore waves we've ever ridden by far and teach some guys to switch from Bekudo Bono (local riding with dug-out canoes known as Sampan or Perahu) to stand-up surfing : quite a few guys are hooked now !

There will be a movie on french mainstream TV produced by Eye Sea Prod / Maxence Peyras while you can watch the slideshow
www.flickr.com/photos/64357569@N00/sets ... 066218310/
Here is a selection of 25 images by 800 pix wide.

And don't forget, that is only 6-8ft Little Bono.

From what the local speedboat drivers tell, the big Bono in winter can reach 12-15ft high !

it on the Kampar river, which if you google it has lots of whitewater rafting higher upstream. If you check google earth, it's situated on the straits of Malacca and the Singapore strait, both which converge opposite the river. The currents in these straits are notoriously strong as the sea gets funnelled down them, think tidal change on the Menai Strait and you'll know what I mean, so this river is where all that energy gets channelled...... It looks amazing, it's incredible that they have found this, hats off to them!!

Looking at the map, I reckon there are several other rivers in this area where there will be bores too.