Hi quite a rip tide there.
Just returned from Oz and I enjoyed using a sit down (with a strap on seat) inflatable paddle board. Our son has a house that has a sea front. The tide through a sea inlet was in a 300 metre wide opening and it narrowed to 200 metres and under a bridge called The RIP Bridge, the water here is nearly 40 metres deep (120 feet).

I made a mistake with tide times and thought it was already gone high tide and I paddled through in very calm water. But there was still 40 minutes to full tide. A large 50 foot cruising boat came in the opposite direction and disturbed the water and then all hell broke loose.

Waves were up passed eye level I was sometimes surfing and sometimes the water flow under me almost took my paddle away. I paddled for 10 minutes and got nowhere. So I hung on and drifted back a bit and then a passing gent in an onboard motor dinghy out fishing saw me, I waved and he came over. I asked for help which he willingly gave and I hung on to the side of his boat and we motored very slowly through to the calm water.

I was quite shocked at the effect of a rip tide and what it can do.

My son told me 2 years before he had a part in a father and son incident. The boy had been swimming off the beach and got swept out in a rip tide, his father had gone out after him and failed to get to him.

The distraught mother came to my son and asked to borrow his phone he asked why as he had not seen the incident happen. He took charge and signalled to 2 canoeists he could see (being taller) to a rescue point each picked up a swimmer and brought them in safely.

Please be very wary of cross currents near the beach. I love playing with model boats in running water but not too deep.
regards
Roy

Thought the wave action was interesting, like mini Tsunami. Tide is actually coming in. Usually run some of my boats here,- but not today. We've just had another large storm going down the country, with high winds, heavy rain, but it seems to have calmed down a bit at the moment. Getting to be a regular occurrence,- 3 big storms and a cyclone in the last 3 months.