ROXY ON THE BEACH: MENTAWAIS

The ultimate surf trip - perfect waves, tropical days and island life with your best mates. ROXY athletes Coco Cairns, Sage Goldsbury, Coral Durant and Suri Jabrik escape to Botik Resort in the Mentawais, chasing swell from sunrise to sunset and soaking up every moment in paradise. Surf, sun, friends and freedom, this is ROXY on the Beach.

Videography: Wade Caroll 
Photography: Indigo Grasset 

What do you get when you mix a 10-day surf trip at Botik Resort with four ROXY athletes? An adventure of a lifetime.

Coco, Sage, Coral and Suri spent just over a week in the Mentawai Islands, waking up at the crack of dawn every day to search for waves. The trip consisted of living in bikini's and surfing all day long before heading back at dusk for a good island home-cooked meal.

Every day was a new adventure. Some days the swell was pumping and the lineup was full, other days the girls were lucky enough to be the only ones out there, and sometimes a storm would roll in and they’d have to wait it out.

Coco: “There were a couple guys in the water that always had something to say. But I wouldn’t say I think of them often… just old guys that weren’t super stoked when four girls would paddle out with stickers.”

Even though the routine was pretty consistent (wake up, surf, eat, sleep, repeat) each day brought a new sense of freedom and an eagerness to find the best wave of the trip. Unfortunately for Coral, her time in the water was cut short, but that didn’t stop her from having an epic time.

Coral: “I rocked up a couple days later than the girls, and then a day or two into being there I hurt my neck and didn’t get to surf the whole time. It was brutal but such a good time with the girls, regardless.”

The hardest decision when packing for a tropical island?
What to bring. Luckily, when your days revolve around surfing, swimming and
island life, you don’t need much.

Just over a week in the Mentawais called for a pretty simple
wardrobe. Bikinis and One-Pieces were on constant rotation, with Rashvests
coming out when the sun got a little too intense. Between surfs, Beach
Cover-Ups, T-Shirts and Shorts were the easy throw-on
essentials for slow afternoons, sunset hangs and dinners back at the resort.

Surf, swim, throw something on and repeat. The ultimate
island uniform.

When the ROXY girls weren’t in the water, what did they get up to?

The waves might have been the reason for the trip, but some of the best moments happened out of the water. 10 days in the Mentawais meant
plenty of boat rides, salty hair, bikinis drying in the sun, Beng Bengs
between sessions and plenty of time spent doing absolutely nothing at all. With nowhere else to be, the girls settled into island time pretty quickly.

At the end of each day, everyone would come together for
dinner and recap everything that had happened. Whether it was an epic set, a
crispy sunburn were or a new phrase that had caught on, there was always plenty to laugh and talk about, bringing the girls even closer together.

Sunset swims were definitely a highlight of the trip, with views straight out of a postcard. Crystal-clear water, an orange sun setting over the horizon and palm trees in every direction it was pure paradise. Well, almost all of it…

Snake Island might not get quite the same review from the girls. We adventured over to the small nearby island and, safe to say, everyone was pretty happy to get back on the boat after our guide assured us the snakes were “in the bushes” and not on the sand!

On one of the last days, everyone was feeling pretty worn out from the surf, and we were lucky enough to have our very own sound healing session at Botik Resort. The perfect chance for the girls to slow down, switch off and reset.

10 days that will be forever imprinted in the girls’ memory.