Bellingen

Exactly.

Mate, there's no sailing in Bellingen.

Oh, here we are.

So basically, Kai, if... mean basically if you go one up from here really it's too far gone we're definitely bringing a new scoring system um and i think we're gonna i'm gonna have a crack at like i don't like the fear and great thing it doesn't it it doesn't make a lot of sense these days um that's the jury's still out on that we want to stick with the simplicity but uh jt um what was i wrong well we know why you were wrong but um we just discussed it

Like Sawtelle is one of our highest price points.

Bellingen has different pockets of price points, as does Coffs.

So it is a real mix from, you know, Woogoolga.

And it can be that families do have been to a particular region on holidays before and they are gravitating towards that area that they know.

And And it does lend itself to, you know, a variety of tastes, whether you do want a little beachside suburb or whether you, you know, like a bit of a CBD location around Coffs Central or the Hinterland.

And then there's different price points within the Hinterland.

So Bellingen Hinterland is more expensive than Coffs Hinterland, depending on the property, but as of an average.

You mentioned about the bypass, something driving up that actually went on, and I think I could see that it was getting built.

And just the fact, too, that they filmed very close to Russell's.

He famously owned a farm in Bellingen, so, you know, like, home before six.

But yeah, but post-stress major, she has gone on to work in TV primarily.

I'll go through this really quick because we've got to talk about the plot.

Yeah, thanks for having me, Sheena.

Yeah, so myself, I grew up in the Bellingen area near Coffs Harbour.

So I spent a

lot of time in that country space.

And your part of the world's very mixed in its agricultural enterprises.

It is, yeah.

We have beef farming, dairy farming, of course, through Bellingen and Dorigo in particular, and a lot of berry farming in the Coffs Harbour, sort of north of Coffs Harbour area.

So yeah, we have a lot of different agricultural activities in our area.

And since they can't take the TSO with them, they're doing a four hands, one piano version of Ancient Letters, as well as lots of other pieces by Elena on this tour.

We're going to talk to them shortly from Bellingen, which is where they've been performing, and But let's first of all listen to the start of Ancient Letters.

Ancient Letters Thank you.

Thank you.

And we heard the pianist Tamara Anicislovska, the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Johannes Fritsch.

And the music was by Elena Kats-Chernin.

And I'm very pleased to say that pianist and composer join us now on the music show from Bellingen.

Hello.

The man you just heard speaking there after Sally Leydon, who is the daughter of long-term missing person Marion Barter, was Gary Keeley.

Gary is the brother of Susan Keeley, who is a 33-year-old mum of two who was last seen on Friday the 1st of December 1989 in Bellingen, New South Wales.

And that audio you just heard was from the New South Wales Parliamentary Inquiry into unsolved murders and long-term missing persons cases in New South Wales between 1965 and 2010, that I attended on Friday in Sydney.

And that was the inquiry I mentioned in my previous podcast where Katie Walker's story was mentioned, which I will get to shortly.

And since then, my daughter's moved to the Hunter Valley and my son's still in Sydney, but I don't think they'll ever move.

But yeah, we've moved to Bellingen and it's wonderful.

Oh, Bellingen.

That's just like one of those fake towns that they build in heaven.

I

A little town and we have everything there.

Yes, beautiful.

And, you know, little boutique B&Bs are popping up everywhere and people are going to Bellingen left, right and centre at the moment.

Where

are we? Bellingen?

Yeah.

Oh, I got my little canoeing hand clip.

It looks nice.

When are

you ever going to fucking do a Bellingen canoe adventure?

I actually come up this way not...