There is brave, there is crazy...and then there is this.
South African real estate agent Grant Campbell got a shock that left him scratching his eyes this week when he found a very quirky fisherman a couple of kilometres from shore.
![Grant Campbell handed over a fish to the intrepid traveller.](/web/20160610185910im_/http://www.watoday.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/f/p/r/x/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gpfqnt.png/1465462506623.jpg)
The man's "boat" was an inflatable rubber tyre and his "motor" was a pair of fluorescent flippers. Clad in shorts and a T-shirt, he was dangling a line over the side of his craft.
"2km out to sea I see this man fishing for dinner, I couldn't believe it ...Tractor tyre and a pair of flippers, I had to give him some of our fishes for his hard work !!!," Mr Campbell said in a Facebook post that has since been shared more than 1200 times.
![A panned-out shot shows the extent of the fisherman's isolation.](/web/20160610185910im_/http://www.watoday.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/f/p/r/y/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gpfqnt.png/1465462506623.jpg)
Mr Campbell's photos have made it as far as WA angling sites and his new fishing friend's activities have been received with a mix of admiration, awe and horror.
"That's hectic, shame a shark is going to get him," one comment read.
Kwa-Zulu Natal, the province in which Mr Campbell's home town of Mount Edgecombe is located, has a lengthy history of shark activity, including Black December of 1957 - when a total of nine attacks across four months claimed six lives.