Rip Current

I thought I should share this with you. Many of you will know all about rip currents and how dangerous they are when you are in the sea. They are a water flow created by the shape of the sea bed and the coast line where water rushes away from the beach and out to sea. I have highlighted the rip on this photograph. The reason I took the snap was because of the sandy water and highly oxygenated water in the rip made it clear to the eye. You can see with the red arrow that as the rip gets into deeper water the surface looks darker and turbid.

The important factor here is two fold, first do be very careful around these currents as they can run along way out and take you with them but the second is consider them to be a conveyer belt of food for the local fish.

You can imagine that all the food stuffs get washed into the shore, but these currents then pull everything away from the shore and back out to sea, so they are laden with waste and prey for hunting fish and in my opinion they are a source of great fishing.