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Speaker 1: The Christmas Sand Sculpture Village is on at Elizabeth Key

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Speaker 1: from this Friday. You might have seen a bit of

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Speaker 1: sand about. This is what's going on.

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Speaker 2: I have done.

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Speaker 3: It's so little.

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Speaker 1: This on from this Friday until January the second is

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Speaker 1: part of the Christmas Lights Trail.

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Speaker 3: And Jenny Rosen is the artist behind it all, and

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Speaker 3: she's joining us now.

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Speaker 2: Hello, gooday, how are you going?

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Speaker 3: Good?

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 1: Your history with sand sculpting started, just like so many

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Speaker 1: of us, with making sand castles on Cotsloy Beach.

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Speaker 2: I know that's so funny to think back to that,

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Speaker 2: But there I was in Perth just making these sand castles,

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Speaker 2: trying to make them better and better. Yeah, and then

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Speaker 2: I sort of ended up cooking up with finding out

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Speaker 2: about sand sculpture, meeting international sand sculptors, and you know,

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Speaker 2: keep making sand castles that are just better.

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Speaker 4: And better, all right, And it is incredible art, isn't it.

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Speaker 4: We can't do anything but admire those people who do

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Speaker 4: it so well. But what about what do we expected

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Speaker 4: to see there at Elizabeth Key? What kind of sculptors?

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Speaker 2: Look? You know what happened to me is I left

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Speaker 2: Perth actually and I ended up opening a business in Dubai,

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Speaker 2: you know, after traveling all through Europe and America, because

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Speaker 2: large scale sand sculptures are just really never made here.

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Speaker 2: So what happened when they had that CBD redevelopment, You know,

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Speaker 2: the thinkers make everyone come into the city. I grabbed

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Speaker 2: one of those grants. So we are making a giant

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Speaker 2: Nativity scene on one side, and it's going to be

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Speaker 2: carved like the old masters. And I've got this Italian

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Speaker 2: dudes come along. They do it every year in Italy,

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Speaker 2: and this Russian dude who did it in the Vatican

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Speaker 2: a couple of years ago, and so they are the

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Speaker 2: top sand sculptures for that. And then on the other side,

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Speaker 2: I've got my American mate and my Korean mate and

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Speaker 2: we're going to do a kind of I call it

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Speaker 2: like American kitch. You know, it's like what we kind

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Speaker 2: of sold that whole you know, Santa Claus and snowmen

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Speaker 2: and snow on buildings, you know that that kind of

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Speaker 2: style of Christmas celebration.

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Speaker 3: You say, sand to claw.

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Speaker 4: Sand and I love that. Dudes and mates, you've mentioned

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Speaker 4: that from across the world bringing their their talents to

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Speaker 4: perve that is pretty.

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Speaker 2: Amazing, but not only them too, because I've got my

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Speaker 2: friend Stevie who's in Byron Bay, and we all know

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Speaker 2: what happened to those guys. They all just got washed out.

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Speaker 2: And so he lost everything once, then he lost everything twice.

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Speaker 2: But not only that, he's he's like an old fashioned

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Speaker 2: sand sculptor. So he just rocks down to the beach

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Speaker 2: and does beach castles the kind of the hippie style.

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Speaker 2: And I love getting them on international jobs with me

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Speaker 2: because he's got such a cool personality, you know. And

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Speaker 2: so anyway, when I realized that even his office has

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Speaker 2: been washed away, I've got him to come. Well in

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Speaker 2: his office, you know Byron Bob. Yes, I got him

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Speaker 2: to come. And we're set up like I've got beat sand.

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Speaker 2: We've got a workshop area, and every night from the

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Speaker 2: eighteenth to the second of December, he's going to make

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Speaker 2: a new beach hippie castle. So what you're going to

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Speaker 2: see why I called it a village, is you've got

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Speaker 2: that renaissance old master's carving. You've got the groovy kind

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Speaker 2: of celebration, you know, a holiday's American kind of movie carving.

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Speaker 2: Then you've got the hippie Australian organic and We've also

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Speaker 2: got four little tabletops around. So it's like for anybody

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Speaker 2: that doesn't know where the international scene has gone on

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Speaker 2: sand sculpting, they can find out by coming down to Elizabeth.

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Speaker 3: Keyth tell Jenny, tell me about the sand.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you talk about how Enviyron Bay Mate's going

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Speaker 1: to do beach sand castles, But is there a particular

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Speaker 1: sand that.

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Speaker 3: Is used for the sculptures?

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Speaker 1: You know, in particular are you going to imagine you've

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Speaker 1: got to have just the right sandys who I.

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Speaker 2: Just want to write everything, you know. So the thing

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Speaker 2: for me is when I started building sand castles, like

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Speaker 2: twenty five thirty years ago, don't I say that because

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Speaker 2: it makes me odd, there was only about five or

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Speaker 2: six people in the world that we're doing it. So

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Speaker 2: you'd fly in somewhere, you go to the quarries and

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Speaker 2: you kind of hold the sand and you go like

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Speaker 2: is this sand? You know, like every sand is different,

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Speaker 2: so it is a bit of a challenge. So for

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Speaker 2: this particular job in Elizabeth Keys, I've actually got some

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Speaker 2: sand from Boddington. I got the sand from Boddington because yeah,

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Speaker 2: well I did a job down there. They have this

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Speaker 2: mustard thing and I did a sand castle for them,

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Speaker 2: and I remember when I was doing I was going, God,

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Speaker 2: this is really good. And so then I had to

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Speaker 2: ring up the farmer who had it, Miss Paddocks, and

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Speaker 2: then I ended up driving it up. So the sand

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Speaker 2: castles when the sand castle having its real performance art

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Speaker 2: because it's whatever sand you got, whatever weather that you

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Speaker 2: happen to get, Like you know, last week it was

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Speaker 2: really windy and rainy and awful. You know, we're hoping

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Speaker 2: that this week will be sunny. And then also the

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Speaker 2: team that you've and how well everyone gets on, so

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Speaker 2: it's all like it's sort of like sailing. You know,

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Speaker 2: you're going to get a different result on the day

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Speaker 2: every day, depending where all the different elements are.

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Speaker 1: I will tell you this, Jenny when yeah, no, I

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Speaker 1: was just going to ask if on January second, when

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Speaker 1: it's all over, you just jump up and down on them.

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Speaker 3: Like when you at the beach.

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Speaker 2: You know, Normally I like to leave and get and

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Speaker 2: get the client take it out because I just don't

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Speaker 2: I don't like to be here, but this one I

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Speaker 2: am taking out. So yeah, look, I mean that's the

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Speaker 2: reality of it comes in the back of a truck

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Speaker 2: with four truck loads for twenty five and then they

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Speaker 2: drop them and then and then out comes the missione

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Speaker 2: and puts it all black. Well, but oh, I've got

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Speaker 2: some videos on the web. No. Yeah, and then it

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Speaker 2: comes it leaves the same way it came in in

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Speaker 2: the truck.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And you know when people ask us about that and

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Speaker 2: they say, oh, how do you feel, we always say, well,

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Speaker 2: we call it job security.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Crazy to get back again later to do it, Jenny,

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Speaker 4: that's crazy logistics getting all that sand in and out

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Speaker 4: and then just praying the weather's going to be all good,

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Speaker 4: so they're all the best with that.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 1: The Christmas Sand Sculpture Village is on ad Elizabeth Key

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Speaker 1: from this Friday until January the second, is part of

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Speaker 1: the Christmas Lights Trail.

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Speaker 3: Fantastic work, Jenny, thank you for chatting to.

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Speaker 2: Us Cha, and also just want to quickly pop in there.

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Speaker 2: The workshops are in the evening, so coming to the light.

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Speaker 2: We've got Stevie making his thing at sunset and then

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Speaker 2: we'll be there for people who want to try the

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Speaker 2: sand and everything until the second of Decemsel from the

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Speaker 2: eighteenth the second. That's two weeks just to try out

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Speaker 2: come and you know, learn from the masters and give

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Speaker 2: it a go yourself.

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Speaker 3: All right, all right, seven thirty nine pm.

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Speaker 4: I've been calling a Sandgropers for you, so hopefully we

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Speaker 4: can get down there and see it. Thanks Jenny, all right,

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Speaker 4: Thanks Jan