March 2018 (ROTM#111) Rainbow Beach, Queensland, Australia

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.

It's not particularly accessible, you really need a 4WD to access it and Prof Jamie Shulmeister from the University of Queensland is doing some research there and took this classic shot of a rip. It's got it all....nice deep channel between sand bars and breaking waves, seemingly clear water. Perfect example.....from the top of a dune at least.

I met Jamie during my first academic job at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and he has done some fantastic geomorphological work since then. Clearly I taught him how to spot a rip though!

White is nice, green is mean yeah?