Saturday Night Live’s Colin Jost is announced as the voice of Olympic surfing, sparking roaring laughter among surf fans

And the most strictly monitored and expensive surfing in the world is left-handed!

The last time 80s supermodel Cindy Crawford appeared on these pages was as a surfing student for Tahitian heartthrob and surf ranch king Raimana Van Bastolaerwhich she later described as “human Viagra.”

“He’s the big blue pill,” wrote Cindy Crawford. “He can wake anyone up! Even me!”

An icon of the fashion world, Cindy Crawford became one of the most recognizable faces in fashion, known for her trademark beauty mark above her lip. Her career peaked in 1987 when she appeared in British Vogue alongside other OG supermods Christy Turlington, Linda Evangalista and Naomi Campbell.

And as if to reinforce the surfer credibility she acquired under Raimana’s powerful hand in Lemoore, Cindy Crawford has now appeared in a photo shoot at the glamorous resort on the Indonesian island of Sumba that forms the facade of Occy’s Left and also owns the rights to it.

And not only does she enjoy the closely monitored left, Cindy Crawford even allowed surf photography legend Jason Childs to take a few snaps as she posed in front of a herd of Sumba’s famous wild horses.

Remember when Nihi, formerly Nihiwatu, was voted the best hotel in the world?

For twelve thousand dollars a night you can rent a five-bedroom property, while a “starter villa” costs $1,500 a night.

If you actually want to surf the front left, you’ll have to shell out about $150 per surf, including local and resort taxes, with a maximum of “one surf spot per villa” and a total lineup of twelve surfers.

Claude and Petra Graves founded Nihiwatu in 2000 before selling it to American entrepreneur Chris Burch and South African hotelier James McBride in 2012.

Following renovations last spring, Nihiwatu was visited by Peter Jon Lindberg of Travel + Leisure magazine, who wrote:

“I spent my week on Sumba in a state of floating bliss, circling infinity pools, natural mud baths, waterfall-fed swimming holes, glowing valleys filled with rice fields, misty mountain villages straight out of Tolkien, and a beach that looked like it had been painted with a van airbrush.
“This beach is spectacular, with or without a left-hander, and it’s easy to see why the Graveses set up camp here. Not much can have changed in the 27 years since then: every morning I walked the mile and a half to the end, and every morning the only footprints were mine.

“Nihiwatu’s redesign by Balinese firm Habitat 5 strikes a fine balance between sophistication and rawness. The guest villas are reminiscent of traditional Sumbanese houses, with steep thatched roofs and massive kasambi tree trunks as buttresses. Sumbanese ikat tapestries and black-and-white photographs of villagers hang on ochre-colored stone walls. Wide-angle windows look out onto lush gardens and the sea beyond.

“Local touches are everywhere: the sinks are hewn from rough-hewn stone slabs, the wardrobes from coconut wood. The space is natural where you want it and elegant where you need it – like the seamless glide of the sliding glass doors, the light switches that glow in the unfamiliar darkness, or the straw fan that swirls inside your monumental four-poster bed rather than outside. The most striking of the new villas: the Kanatar Sumba Houses, where an outdoor shower protrudes from the second floor as if by magic. All the other outdoor showers went home and cried.

“Ninety-eight percent of the staff are Sumba natives. Like most guests, I was assigned a butler, a cheerful Sumbanese named Simson, who brought breakfast every morning at 7 a.m.—papaya, rambutan, watermelon juice, homemade yogurt, Sumba coffee. (The food here is fantastic, highlighting the fresh, bold flavors you crave in the tropics.) One morning, Simson was limping because a scorpion had bitten him on the toe at home. ‘I didn’t check before I put on my sandals!’ he said, as if it were his fault, not the scorpion’s. He was quick to add that they are rare in Nihiwatu.

“Of course, there is an inevitable dissonance between Sumba’s deprivations and Nihiwatu’s privileges, between a subsistence economy and a butler-staffed resort. Perhaps that is why so many guests feel compelled to support the foundation and, not least, to visit Sumbanese villages. When you do that, you realise how unique – and symbiotic – the relationship is between Nihiwatu and the island it calls home.”

Did you, like me, laugh a little at the butler reference? “…a cheerful Sumbanese named Samson… one morning Samson was limping because a scorpion had bitten him on the toe at home.”

Oh, poor Samson, the damned native, gets paid to be merry even when he’s poisoned!

Six years ago, quasi-Kardashian Brody Jenner rented the entire place for a traditional heterosexual wedding (the event has since been canceled) to Kaitlynn Carter.