What is the first thing you think of doing when 60 millimetres of rain falls and the creek that flows through the middle of your farm starts running?

Jordan Lynch gets out his surfboard, calls a few friends and goes 'skurfing' - a hybrid of surfing and water skiing while being towed by a quad bike.

Mr Lynch owns a property about four kilometres east of Merredin, in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia.

On Sunday March 1, his farm received 60 mm of rain and the creek started flowing - a rare occurrence.

"I've only seen it flow twice before in my life, in 16 years, so I thought you can't miss an opportunity like that, so I grabbed my surfboard an my ski and gave it a go behind the four wheeler" he said.

"I tried to con a couple of boys into it, not too many would have a bar of it, but eventually got a couple of neighbours to help out and they drove the four wheeler.

"We were probably going for a kilometre then it got a bit boggy."

Mr Lynch said he started surfing about 10 years ago, and he water skis on a nearby lake when it fills up.

"We've had a boat all of our lives ... Baandee Lake is pretty close to here, you can't get to the surf very often in Merredin, so I started skurfing behind the boat," he said.

When he is not "skurfing" Mr Lynch is a grain producer, grows hay for the export market and runs a few sheep.