A search is on for a young tourist whose camera was fished out of the Tweed River in northern NSW and filled with the owner's precious selfies.

The GoPro was broken when it washed up near Fingal two weeks ago but the 32GB of photos and videos survived, News Corp reports .

The images document the mystery owner's travels to places like New York, the Grand Canyon and Fiji.

They even reveal how the camera was lost — on a kayak trip on the river.

"The last thing (on the camera) is, he is kayaking with three or four other people at Fingal and he has flipped and then all you see is water and sand until it turns itself off," said local resident Steve Carmody, who found the camera.

"I thought if these were my memories, I would love to get them back so I took one photo of him and put it on Facebook and shared it publicly."

Mr Carmody's Facebook post has received more than 6500 shares.

There is still no sign of the mystery fair-haired young man pictured in the photos and Mr Carmody fears he is long gone.