Nias, Indonesia Surf Travel VLOG

Booked a one-way flight to one of the best right-handers in all of Indonesia. I was on the fence about going. My friend was like, please come with me. And I was like, okay, you know what, why not? I checked the forecast here and I'm always for an adventure. Constantly myself, I'm torn between should I be financially responsible or YOLO, you only live once. But however, been surfing mainly lefts and endos. So I was like, I can't miss this opportunity to surf one of the best right-handers in all of Indonesia. And the best thing about this wave right now is that most people go there. All the pros go there when the waves are really big, but we're actually chasing like the little waves. But yeah, it's been a massive complication. My friend had to literally rebook her flight yesterday to be on the same flight as mine because they rescheduled her flight to where her layover, like she lands by the time her other flight takes off. And then, I can't even book my second flight. So I'm going to be booking that on the way to the airport. It's kind of starting off on a little bit of like a, you know, but it's okay. We're going to turn it around. And I decided to just blog it because I haven't done a blog in a while. So I'm just going to be taking you along on the adventure to see what we get up to. This is a wave that could be perfect to get my very first barrel and my friend I'm going with. So she used to be a competitive surfer. So she's a very good surfer. So if I'm going to get barreled, it's going to be on this trip. So who knows? And there's tons of videographers there. So maybe I will get my very first barrel, but yeah, anyways, I'm going to go to yoga. Packed of everything. I have my surfboard, my friend's surfboards out there. My place is a mess because I literally got back from another surf trip. Now I'm leaving again to go on another surf trip. Life is amazing. Anyway, stay along for the journey to find out if I get barreled and how the rest of this trip turns out. All right. We're at the airport at Despensar and I just found out that I booked a flight. Yeah. So Tiana has had to reschedule her flight three times. We're now at Despensar and I found out that I booked my flight out of the wrong air force. I'm hoping that they can actually get me like on the flight to go there. It's just been chaotic. And I also don't have a flight for me this tomorrow. So we're hoping that this is the last of our bad luck, but it's off to a interesting start. I'm going to say yes and I'll try again. Wait, you want to say that again? By the way, my flight tour has been changed. I'm on your flight now. Yay. Problem solved. Problem solved. Okay. We made it to Medan. Thank goodness. Now we just have to find somewhere to sleep. Yay. One good thing has happened. That was so fast. Usually they come out like laugh and you freak out. Yeah. We have arrived in the executive suite. It was the only room available for the night, but we got this nice little lounge area that we've clearly made ourselves very comfortable. One TV. Tiana's just chilling in her robe. I'm in my robe. Wait, you got to see this amazing view outside. It's so cool. Wow. The stones. Wow. Amazing. Honestly, the best thing is the robes. And then we have our bathroom. It's not great, but yeah. Originally this room was going to be like 1,600, but I negotiated for 1,500. Such a steal. This is suspicious. You never know when you order in these countries. He said there was cheese on it. Do you see any cheese? I'm like, there's no cheese. It's like orange. There's a carrot. Let's see. Not terrible. It's like a sweet sauce. Maybe I should have gone with the meat orange. Another update. We spent the night in Medan. Last night I saw that my flight had been cancelled yet again, so I got on another flight this morning, which is actually the same flight as Abby's, so that's good. And then we get to the airport, and we thought we had booked with another airline, which originally we had. And then they told us that we were on Wings Air, which is actually the worst airline. It's the worst. And they said we had to pay one mil per board, so we basically fought our way out of paying five mil and only had to pay one mil each, which is still a scooch up, but it's better than five mil. But we're on our way. This is the last flight. The last trip. Actually, no. Not the last trip, because when we get there we have another two and a half hour drive. Smile. Also, everywhere in Indo has so many monkeys. They're going to shoot the monkeys. Have you eaten a monkey before? I haven't. I'm going to pass, but you can do it. We just arrived. Oh my god, I'm so excited. Our room is here. It's pumping. Of course, as I film, the wave stops, but this is literally the view to our room. We go through here. Here's our little bedroom and our bathroom. Nothing special. Look at this epic wave. Tianna's getting her hot pink board ready. My board is ready. We are getting ready to go. So small. Okay, how was your very first session, Niaz? It was really fun. We're a little bit rusty with head. I mean, two days of travel, pretty much, so pretty exhausted, but the waves were kind of perfect. Three to four foot, nothing crazy. A couple fun turns. Stoked. Yes, amazing. For not sleeping and not eating. How was the first session? Not bad. I'm exhausted. I was like struggle city. I took some of the longest breath holds I've done in a long time, but I'm glad because now I'm not scared of the wave or the reef, so if I wipe out, whatever, I'm still going to send it. A little rusty on my front side, but I think by the end of this week it's going to be amazing, and I love the wave. I just wish I had more energy. No, there was definitely some sets. If it wasn't windy, it would be barreling for sure. Did she get barreled? Did I get barreled? I reckon tomorrow could be on. The tide's high in the morning, but we're hopeful. If it picks up another two foot, it'll be solid. There's some solid sets for sure. Maybe like, how many people are out there? Ten? Everyone's super friendly. Super chill, like 20 waves. No one's back paddling you? No sneaking? Yeah, she likes it. She's just filming right now. Wait, louder. Not yet. When can we leave, Tiana? We can't leave until I get barreled. Okay. We do live in Bali. It took us two days to get here. I'm vlogging the weeks. Tiana, hit and peak of the day. High and low. High? Getting here, actually, was a good one. After two days of travel. Honestly, there were some moments where I didn't think we were going to make it, but we made it, so that was a high for me. Getting here and just being like, wow, we're here. Made it. A low for me. I actually hit the reef today. I've got a little reef cut on my toe. I kind of got lit up on my last wave. I didn't really expect it to explode the way it did, but that's okay. We're all good. We're waxing up the gun for tomorrow and we are ready to get some barrels. High and low. Peak in the pit. I actually learned that in New Zealand when my friend and I were couch surfing there. These guys made us do it. Anyway, so my peak of the day. I don't want to steal yours, so I'm going to come up with something different. It's probably getting content and getting filmed. I love getting filmed and getting content. I'm super excited. We hired a photographer for the trip who's going to get all of our waves. That was amazing. I honestly was feeling so tired. I was so exhausted that I was just really struggling to paddle. I was struggling to do anything and I didn't have the send-it energy that I needed today. That was probably my pit of the day. There's the wave there. To get in, you need to take the whitewash paddle in and then you'll see Tiana there. She's coming in walking along the reef and she has to walk in and then you make it back to our accommodation. I just came in from the surf. It was pretty heavy out there. It was big. I definitely tried to send it into some barrels. Did I make it out? No. Did I hit the lip? Yes. Does my neck hurt? Yes, but I still sent it. I actually hired a coach for today just because the waves were going to be pretty big and barreling and there's going to be a lot of people out there so I thought it would be best to have someone out there with me. He helped me catch a lot more waves. I'm super sore, so tired. I was out there for almost three hours. I just ordered a breakfast burrito and a coffee. I didn't have any coffee before going out. I'm going to figure out if I'm going to surf again because I am so tired. I'm like, look at my eyes. Okay, look at Tiana's fruit salad and then look at my burrito. Just for comparison, that's my hand. Smallest breakfast burrito ever. This is service. Not even out of the water because it's brought down to me. Oh my god, how does it taste? This is my coconut? No. Do you have any coconut for me? Is it two? One more? One more? Yeah. Thank you. Let's try it. Let's do a taste test. Oh my god, you didn't even get half in your mouth. That's good. One more. Thank you. You did? Did you make it out? I got a head dip, to be honest. I made it out. We can leave. We're done, let's go back. Did you get your barrels this morning? The bird travels fast around here. Sorry, I did tell them. Everyone's asking, where are you from? When are you leaving? I'm like, when I get barreled. I know, I've been telling them that too. They're asking me when we're leaving. I said, when Tiana gets barreled. And it was the camera out. Well, the bird was there and then it left. But you told me he was on land. Yeah, I think he's on land. But after this morning, I think there's a lot of photographers. I think you'll get your shot. The hustle never stops. I am sitting here watching the waves, currently editing a video, and I just got brought my vegetarian lunch. Pretty much what I do all the time is I surf whenever I want, but then I work in between surf sessions or after I surf, and I do yoga and everything like that. But just so you know, I am always working, always hustling to live this life. On every wave, and the other waves that I got just closed out. So I literally, my wave count was zero. And this local guy was even like, oh, have you caught any waves? And I was like, oh, no, not really yet. And then he actually went to help me catch a wave. He was like, oh, go for this wave. And then this guy snaked me. It's kind of true, though. When a local snakes you, what can you do? This is their place. But yeah, it's just frustrating when it happens like four times in a row. And I'm personally not at the skill level to take the wave way deeper, so I need to take it more on the shoulder. So yeah, it's like very difficult for me to catch the wave sometimes when it's like that. Earlier, I was catching more waves because people were like just like letting you go. And they're like, oh, yeah, go. And then you can just take it. But today, there was none of that. And yeah, just lots of snaking and wasn't fun. Best time of the day. We get to review our content. We get to see Tiana's barrel and me getting smashed. Namaste, Tiana. Thank you. High five. Look at all the bang-bangs. How many bang-bangs did you get? One, two, three, four, five, six. Why so many bang-bangs? The rain. OK. Pit and peak. Pit and peak? Is that right? My peak would be probably just like having three surfs in the day and getting heaps of waves. We don't really get it at Uluwatu. So that is definitely a highlight for me. My pit? It's not getting the pit. I feel like I had opportunities today. I didn't get the pit, but there's always more. So stay tuned. Pit and peak of day two. I have two pits. I lost my favorite bracelet during the wipeout where I got the freaking lip hitting me in the barrel. That was pretty gnarly. The second surf was just not fun at all. I almost cried. My peak was hiring a surf coach and getting some epic waves and trying to get barreled. It was so fun and I loved looking back on the content. I was like, wow, that was so worth it. I don't even know what day it is, but I think it's our third day. Surf was like, I hate to say a letdown because there wasn't any barrels and there was a lot of wind, onshore wind. The first few waves I got, he just pushed me into some closeouts so I had some pretty gnarly breath holds and I was just not off to a great start. Then it did get better, but then all of a sudden the photographer left because they had a problem with their boat and so they didn't even get my last good waves for the past hour, but overall it was a really good session. My surf sesh was a little slow today. Went in with a good mindset. I was ready to get barreled, but it was just really slow today and I think with the long waits, everyone was a little bit more aggressive and a few people weren't taking turns which is not ideal. I'm not going to name names. But yeah, it was alright. It was still fun. Still caught heaps of waves. I feel like I've probably had more waves in the last three days than I have in my whole season or two to be fair. I'm doing it. So I just dip it? Yeah, just leave it. I just leave it. Okay. Technology. Wow. Oh, it's already a powdered donut. Amazing. Yes. Thank you so much. Thank you. Maybe. Let me just try it first. Yes. They're so fast. Aww. I don't know how this works. Do we have enough to get three? Oh yeah. Tomorrow. Oh. Thank you. Bye guys. See you tomorrow. You gotta be there after surf, okay? Too slow today. Yeah, guys. Cheers. This one's actually not bad. This is a goodie. It's good. It's really hard to drink and film at the same time. Day four was not my best day. I definitely felt like I was in the barrel several times. I could see the exit. I just never made it out of the exit. And our camera guy was on land, so we'll get some land shots but hopefully can get some of the in the water shots from the guy. Because there was a point. I was like, I knew I was in it and I think I dragged too much when I should have stuck my hands out to get through the barrel. And yeah. And I got a couple of fun waves and everything but it's a little bit of a frustrating session. And then there was one wave that we were going for and then this other guy paddled and took it and he got such an amazing wave and I was really frustrated and I had a hard time letting it go. But yeah. It's what it is. Until tomorrow or maybe this afternoon. We'll see. My surf session was actually pretty fun. I got a barrel. Let's see from the land angle but it felt nice. A little turn after it. The wind came up kind of early today but it was honestly still pretty fun. Less crowded today I feel. But yeah. Still so fun. Breakfast is served. I know. I'm so excited. Banana pancake. Let's open it up. Making banana pancakes. Yum. I feel like you can't go wrong with banana pancakes in Asia. You are. Look at this view we have. We haven't left our accommodation except for to go surfing. Yeah. Yeah. We don't know what. We have no idea what's beyond this building and we walked down to go surfing pretty much over there. That's all we know. And the banana pancakes and the lattes here. So. We can't leave Niass. Obviously trying to get here was really hard but trying to leave is harder. The only way out is with wings and Lion Air and even if we were to fly to Medellin and then get on another flight, the flights are going to make us stay overnight somewhere and we don't want to do that. We'd rather just go back to Bali and we're trying to book through Lion Air which had the same problem as before that it like booked me on a flight but then it didn't like actually make my car payment go through and then it just booked us but we tried to re-book it but it said that our flight is already ticketed for our name so now we can't book a flight and it's the only way to book the flight. So it looks like we're staying. Oh my god with my ripped up ass and my period about to start. And also to add these flights are like pretty much we could pay to go to Australia or somewhere else like it's so expensive. Literally. Yeah Nia it's expensive. Finally got some Indonesian lunch. Woohoo! I'm just working. I literally broke my AirPods earlier like my case. They still work but really need some glue. I'm ready for the magic trick. Pick the card. Okay. Do I just tell you or how do I do it? Just pick, don't show me. Don't show you? I point at it? Okay I'm gonna do this one. Alright. Okay pick one card. Oh I grab it. Okay. Alright this is my card. Put everywhere you want. Everywhere. Stop. Okay put there. So you got the second one right? Okay. Okay. Yes. The first card is yours? No right? And the second one? Yes. Yes that's my card. So I mean like this. First card is yours? Yes. No. No no that's not mine. And then the second one is yours right? Yes that's my card. So the first card is yours? No right? So I put your card on the bottom and then your card on the top I put here. Okay. This two right? And then it's your card again? No right? No. I put here and I put this one on the top. Alright. It's your card again? No right? I put here and I put this one on the top. It's your card again? No right? No. I put here and I put this one on the top. So now you can shuffle. Alright. I just shuffle. Here I'll shuffle. You hold the camera. You hold the camera. Cause I gotta film this. You're gonna be in this. That's fine. I shuffle it. Shuffle it real good. I actually think I know this trick. No I don't. No I don't. I think my brother used to do this. But we'll find out. I was blown. I was like you're magic. I know. I know. But I remember my little brother used to do this. Not yet. My little brother used to be into magic tricks. But my one is just two weeks. Two weeks. My brother was obsessed. I think he would do this trick. But I'm excited to see what yours is. Alright. Why not? Let's go. I actually was blown away. I was like what? Is it your card right? Four of clubs. No? No. No? No. Like this your hand. Like this. Like this okay. What's that? This is four of clubs right? Yeah. Okay give me another hand. Okay. Four of clubs. Okay remember I take four of clubs. I put here. Alright. So remember yeah. Okay. I put your card here. And then close. Four of clubs. Okay. Remember. And then I do shuffle. Alright. Four of clubs. Shuffle. Open that. Is it your card? Oh my god. Okay. How? That was cool. How did he do it? He must have not been the four of clubs. I had to. Crazy. Good job. That was great. What do you say? I don't have any cash. Tricky. Hold on. My lighting is bad. Woo! Oh my god. Yum. Alright Tiana take a bite. How is it? So good. So fresh. Yum. You make yourself? Yeah. Or your mom? He said his mom. Does she get mad at you if you don't sell all the donuts? No. What? Does she get mad if you don't sell all the donuts? Yeah my mom angry. Going on a walk now to the ATM because I don't have any cash left and I need to be able to pay the coconut kids and just get snacks and stuff and take their photos. So let's hope that this one place I'm going to has cash. Yeah this is the furthest I've walked because we pretty much just surfed and we take this route to just go to the surf and that's it. I went to the ATM and turns out it's not an ATM it's just that you pay with cash. We pay with card and she'll give you cash and then she charges you 3%. So I took out 1 mil which is like 60 USD and then she charged me 30 which is like I don't know a dollar and a half to get that but at least I now have cash and I'm probably just going to go for an ATM run tomorrow and rent a bike and go into town. Pit in pain of the day. Pit not making some of my barrels. Peak getting a cool water shot of a little barrel. Okay my pit would be not making it out of any barrel. I was in so many barrels today and I didn't make it out of any and I was very frustrated and had not gotten frustrated yet. And then my peak would probably be I mean I still had fun in the footage but I'm trying to think what is the best moment of today? Oh my god no they don't like having me sick but I do I kind of like seeing all the content like I would say that's always like a highlight to like see I like to see the clip. I like to see the photo of me in the barrel and like I want to take a screenshot of me like in the barrel because it looks really cool. So at least I have a cool photo of me looking like I'm getting barreled. Yeah that is insanely big and what is that? I don't know. Manifest it in. Are you going to eat the eyes? Of course. Okay run us through what has happened here. Oh my god I just got smashed. I had an okay session and there was a huge set coming and I duck dived and I held on to my board which I think might have been the mistake and I got really like we were even high tide. I got dragged on the reef and I asked them before and it's like three or four meters so I was taking three or four meters down dragged on the reef and I could feel it. I was like oh my god I'm getting dragged on the reef and then I came up and I was like my whole... Look at this. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Yeah it was covered in blood and I was like I'm just going in like I can't do this. This is a little bit better but this one was deeper. I had reef inside of it. Oh my gosh you got smoked. Yeah I know I put lime on it and I cried. Holy ****. Alright gotta pay to play. That's it. It's actually pretty good. It's not super deep. Yeah. I think my ankle was deeper. But I think like for some reason I think I have an allergic reaction to coral because like I swell up really bad. Is this new? No that happened today. Oh. You got everything girl. What is this stuff? Antiseptic. So it makes it dry not wet. It makes it look really clean. All for dramatic Thank you. Now he's gonna do that like three times a day and you'll be fine. Three times a day? Oh my god. Good morning good morning it's our final day. It's raining. I'm cut up pretty bad. Tired. Burnt. Luckily the swell has dropped significantly so the waves look like they'd just be a little fun and playful. Yeah but I'm pretty cooked after yesterday's session. So not as motivated to go out. Wait. What happened? What did you just say? We got pitted. All done. Are you motivated to go out today? I'm done. I'm packing my board bag. I'm retiring. She's retiring. She doesn't need to get barreled ever again in her life. Right? I can die happy. She didn't even get she didn't even touch the reef though. I think you gotta give it another chance. Hit and peak for yesterday. Okay my peak was that I finally feel like I figured the wave out. I got, honestly I was getting barrel after barrel yesterday so that was amazing. That's been the highlight of the trip so far. And then my pit. You know what? I don't think I have one from yesterday so that's that's a good thing. No I think I'm good now. I think everything I'm just at peace with since I've got my shot. I'm good. And today. Oh today. Today was a pretty uneventful day. We went for a little surf this morning. I did get two fun barrels actually. Probably my deepest barrel so I'd say that was my peak. And my pit is I've got a lot of mosquito bites all over me actually. Which is really really annoying and itchy obviously. So yeah that's my pit and peak for the day. Pit and peak for yesterday was peak was making it out of a barrel even though I was barely in it. I still made it out. Successful exit. Woohoo! Pit was getting dragged across the reef and literally scraping my bum. That sucked. And then today I would say my peak was surfing. I was out there for like four hours plus and I caught some fun waves so it was just like a chill surf and then my pit would be starting my period. That sucks. Not supposed to come for like two more days. But it's here. Fun car ride. That was bumpy. I'm very sad too. Oh, thank you. I'm just gonna post this though. The corruption. Tiana, how do you feel after that? Well, I think they are worth it. Billion per barrel pretty much. I'm just working out calculations now actually. How many barrels did you get? We worked it out. It actually was $300 a day technically for being there total. So we spent less than a thousand Australian with the flights. $2,000. Oh my god. And like most of that was on flights. 90% of that was on flights. We are back in Bali. Kinda sad though. I'm like happy sad. I know I'm happy sad. We both got barreled. That's sad. I know. I never thought I would say this but I'm actually sad I woke up in Bali. Just got back from the surf trip and I slept about nine hours. I'm physically beat. I have reef cuts all over my body. I'm so exhausted. All I can think about was how much of an amazing time that I had. I almost even wanna cry thinking about it. Especially the fact with how hard I pushed myself. Before going on this trip I was actually quite terrified of this wave. You would see clips of this huge barreling right hander and I thought there's no way that I can surf that. I remember thinking that to myself. And I almost didn't go because I thought I wasn't there. I thought I couldn't do it. But I went. And I did it. And it makes me emotional because I almost stopped myself from going. And I remember since I went I was like, I told myself, you're gonna go. You're gonna see it. I don't want you to think about what could happen. I just want you to focus on making the wave. Making the drop. Who cares? And I did. And I feel like I really pushed myself. The hardest I've ever pushed myself in surfing. I surfed some of the biggest waves I've ever surfed. I got barreled even though it was only for a few seconds. But I got to be inside a barrel of a wave so many times in my life. And a week two weeks ago, I was never even thought that was a possibility or never even tried to do that. So I feel like I push myself physically so much. I'm just a bit emotional about that because I'm proud of myself for pushing myself. And I know that I left Nia's with no regrets. Went and pushed myself to the best of my ability. And I had so much fun. And I love that wave. It's so fun. It's so fast. It's so challenging. It's so incredible. Yeah, I just don't really have any other words left to say except for the fact that I'm glad that I spontaneously booked this trip. I'm so glad that I hired a videographer. I'm so glad that my friend messaged me and we did this whole thing last minute. Even though it was an expensive trip in the end, I don't care. It was 100% worth it. And I'm so glad that I have memories to take with and that I'm making this video so that I can watch forever and that I can share with you the whole entire journey. So if you have made it thus far to the end of this video, I just want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart. I appreciate it so, so much. If you haven't already, please hit that like button and please subscribe for more content because I want to start making more surf videos and surf flips and everything. So stay along for my whole entire journey for seeing what I get up to next and where I travel to. All right. Thank you.