I’ve been getting a lot of questions lately about the impacts that the proposed offshore wind farm will have on our surf and beaches. There’s a lot of information about the issue floating around out there (pun intended) and while it’s good to ask these questions, the good news it that the windfarms will have absolutely no impact on our surf, or on our beaches.

Beaches are wider than we’ve seen for years and judging from the massive sand banks, there’s more coming – it’s going to be the ‘Summer of Sand’.

If you pick up a handful of sand, it’s full of thousands of sand grains of different sizes, colours and origins that all have a story to tell because beaches are essentially dumping grounds for the end products of millions of years of erosion of the earth’s surface.

A waverider buoy is like a big soccer ball tethered to the ocean floor that bobs, pitches and rolls at the surface with the passage of waves.

You often hear surfers talking about waves sometimes feeling more ‘powerful’. Is this really true? Absolutely. It all has to do with basic wave physics.It all begins with an idea.

If you see someone in trouble, even if it’s your child, don’t rush in. Fight the urge to run to the water and swim as fast as you can.

It would be fantastic to increase the number of beaches patrolled by lifeguards – because the flags work - but it’s not easy logistically. So we have to give beachgoers on unpatrolled beaches something more.

Boundary rips, also flow through deeper channels and occur next to headlands, rock platforms or physical structures like groynes and jetties and they also look like dark gaps.