April 2011 (ROTM#28), Bondi Beach, NSW, Australia

I love this picture. It was taken late in the summer here in Australia when Bondi was absolutely packed. The photographer is Eugene Tan who runs a website called Aquabumps where you can subscribe to a daily email update of some superb photography of Bondi Beach . His pictures are not just about surfing and include phenomenal sunset shots and other pictures that really capture the essence of Bondi, all of which can be purchased online or from his Bondi Gallery.  Anyway...a lot of his shots also have amazing rips in them and I hope he doesn't mind me using this one!

 You can see the rip current in the middle of the photo thanks to a number of clues: i) there's a nice dark gap heading offshore - that's the rip channel; ii) there's a nice little 'bowl' in the beach. When rips stick around in the same place long enough, they can erode out a little embayment for themselves; and iii) there's no-one in them! Well, maybe a few people. Hope they enjoyed the ride.

Only a few entering the rip bowl