It’s back to Oahu’s famous North Shore this month – the world famous Sunset Beach. Most of the North Shore is actually one long beach extending about 5 kilometers and encompasses a number of famous surf breaks

The rip current should be reasonably obvious if you’ve been following my ‘white is nice, green is mean’ and ‘look for dark gaps’ mantra. The rip is right in the middle of the breaking waves.

This picture shows a classic ‘dark gap’ rip current between breaking waves. But it wasn’t a rip current at all. There was no rip at the beach and I just waited until I saw some random wave breaking that made conditions look like a rip.