This was developed with the help of Surf Life Saving Australia (SLSA), Live Saving Victoria (LSV) and myself and it's a fantastic educational resource. It all begins with an idea.

What factors impact your choice of decision about where to swim when you go the beach?

It recently occurred to me that one thing I always do to spot rips is to look down or up the beach because it’s easier to see rips from the side.

Coalcliff is a steep beach known for its' strong backwash and while it doesn't have channelised rips between sandbanks very often, it does get rips, usually against the southern rock platform.

Rainbow Beach is a fantastic long beach that literally extends from north of Noosa, QLD up to Fraser Island. It's backed by dunes of multi-coloured sands with varying degrees of oxidation giving it the Rainbow moniker

This rip of the month is a little different as it's time to talk about how rips flow and how this can influence what you should do if you find yourself caught in a rip current.