Ava Starz and Emma Heart Take a Red Jet Ski Down the Gold Coast and X Can’t Look Away

Ava Starz and Emma Heart do not do quiet weekends. On Sunday afternoon the best friends put a red jet ski, a pair of bikinis and the Gold Coast skyline into one seven-second clip, and X has been watching it on repeat ever since.

The video landed on Ava’s X account (@Ava_starz) at 2:37pm on Sunday, October 11, tagged to the Gold Coast, Queensland. It shows two women in bikinis on the jet ski, the water kicking up around them and the city towers sitting along the shoreline behind. The caption is short, a touch typo-ed and entirely believable: “im thought she was going to crash 😂😂😘 @Emma_heart05 and @Ava_starz”.

Scoop is not going to tell you which of the two thought the other was about to wipe out. The caption does not say, and neither does the clip. What the video does show is a very committed ride, a lot of spray, and two real-world influencers having the kind of fun that gets a post shared around before the sun goes down.

The numbers followed fast. As of about 7:30am Brisbane time on Monday, October 12, the post had 15,096 views, 1,135 likes, 50 replies, 35 reposts and 135 bookmarks, according to X’s public figures. That is roughly 15,000 views of two best friends on a jet ski, and 135 people who liked it enough to save it. No judgement. It is a lovely skyline.

The photo that goes with this story shows the pair on a red jet ski too. Shot over the shoulder, it has one woman in a black bikini gripping the handlebars while the other sits in front in a black bikini top, blonde ponytail blowing back in the wind. Behind them the Gold Coast skyline stretches along the coast, and the wake is a white blur in the corner of the frame. Scoop will say this much: whoever is steering looks like she knows exactly what she is doing.

If you have not met them yet, here is the quick version. Ava is a Gold Coast influencer who lives in Surfers Paradise. She works in the casual nursing pool and is studying cosmetic surgery nursing, she trained in gymnastics, and she has surfed the Gold Coast her whole life, so a jet ski is hardly out of her comfort zone. Emma is Ava’s best friend from school, and she is tagged in the caption alongside Ava, with the post itself credited “Emma and Ava Starz” under the video.

For the before-and-after brunch companion, there is also this shot of the pair at a Gold Coast cafe. The table is loaded: plates of brunch with tomato on the side, a tall glass of orange juice, a glass of water and a cup of coffee in the foreground. Both of them are in gold necklaces, one spelling out AVA and the other a simple gold E. Matching energy, different letters.

It is a pretty good pairing, really. Brunch on land, spray on the water, and two real-world influencers who clearly know how to pick a backdrop. If this is what a regular weekend looks like on the Gold Coast, the rest of us are doing weekends wrong.

It is also worth noting how short this one is. The video runs just seven seconds, with no setup, only a jet ski, a skyline and a caption that sounds like it was typed with one hand while laughing. Sometimes that is all a post needs.

The post also has one quote post and 35 reposts, so the clip is being passed around. The 50 replies are worth a scroll if you need a lift on a Monday.

Scoop’s verdict? Red jet ski: fast. Skyline: unreal. Caption: im not sure that is a word, but we get it. Ava Starz and Emma Heart just turned seven seconds on the Gold Coast into the best thing on your timeline today.