Watch: Coco Cairns in ‘Rose Red Raw Rice’ 

Coco Cairns is a 19-year-old Roxy-sponsored gal from Noosa who rides all kinds of boards gracefully and has a tasteful eye for art and curation—see @kikkifilms.

She spends much of her time bouncing between Noosa and Fingal, a 200-kilometer stretch of ruler-straight pointbreaks that offer endless opportunities for frontside arcs. Hers, in particular, has shades of Steph Gilmore—something best consumed slowly in Dan Scott’s trademark 120fps meditative surf reels.

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Coco explained how she stitched this lo-fi edit together 30,000 feet in the air and titled it based on an inspiring bag of rice.

“‘Rose Red Raw Rice’ is a little clip I put together from two sessions—one in Sri Lanka, where I recently traveled with my dad, and the other from a surf at Snapper that had been sitting on my desktop for too long.

I actually had a different name in mind until I was about to upload the edit and noticed a rice bag from Sri Lanka hanging in my house. The print read Rose Red Raw Rice. That’ll do for a title I figured.

Sri Lanka was short and sweet, with plenty of near-death experiences navigating traffic, followed by a surf at Lazy Lefts—a backpacker’s special. The second half of the clip captures a familiar kind of day at Snapper with Dan Scott.

More than the surfing being five-star, I just enjoyed having something to work on while passing the time on the flight home.”