The Quiet Rebellion Against "Good Enough"
The Quiet Rebellion Against "Good Enough"
A vision for what coastal hospitality could be has sparked something beautiful.
"We're building more than a business," Bede says. "We're building a quiet uprising against 'good enough'."
Supercalla Private Properties chose the details no one else thinks about. Birthday candles for forgotten celebrations. Compostable slippers waiting beside lush robes. The tiny heroes that transform holidays.
The rebellion is spreading. Small, independent operators are raising the bar, choosing soul over scale, stories over statistics. Creating something bigger together while holding onto that rare warmth only the thoughtful ones can deliver.
Because true luxury isn't thread count or marble benchtops. It's the feeling that someone thought of you before you arrived.
Read how one vision sparked a movement reshaping luxury hospitality.
Some businesses begin with spreadsheets. Supercalla Private Properties began with heartbreak.
Bede & Rob - Founders of Supercalla Private Properties
“The door opened to what should have been escape. Sea air. Soft light. That hush you get when the world falls away.”
Instead, damp cupboards and disinfectant. A kitchen bench sticky with neglect. A welcome note, faded photocopy, curling at the edges, that felt like an afterthought from a stranger who'd never considered who they were, or why they'd come.
Standing in what should have been sanctuary, Bede felt something crack open. Not just disappointment. Revolution.
"That moment planted the seed for Supercalla," he reflects. "And for a different way of thinking about holiday homes altogether."
What followed was a kind of quiet madness. Driving from Potts Point every weekend, trying to breathe life into a space that had lost its rhythm. Setting the house themselves because no one else would. Chasing a vision of what coastal experiences could be when someone with a true soul for hospitality cared.
The breaking point became the breakthrough…
Today, that crack has widened into something beautiful. A rebellion against the volume game that strips extraordinary homes of their soul and processes them like fast food. Templated check-ins. Plastic welcome baskets. Two rolls of toilet paper and a wish for the best.
"It's hospitality by spreadsheet," Bede says. "And guests can feel it the second they walk in the door."
Supercalla chose differently. They chose the details no one else thinks about.
Birthday candles for the forgotten celebration. Band aids for the scuffed knee while preparing dinner. Compostable slippers waiting beside lush robes. The tiny heroes that save holidays.
Not glamorous. Revolutionary.
Because true luxury isn't thread count or marble benchtops. It's the feeling that someone thought of you before you arrived. That your sanctuary was prepared by hands that understand what sanctuary means.
The Casa in Kangaroo Valley breathes Mediterranean warmth. Indio pulses with barefoot Palm Springs energy on the South Coast. Rea Rea Lodge whispers exclusive stories to those who find this rare escape. Each property a character in a larger narrative about what happens when you refuse to settle.
Last year, over 6,800 guests discovered what this rebellion feels like. $4.8 million flowed into regional communities not through volume, but through value. Through experiences that don’t have volume as the blue print.
The numbers matter. But not as much as the guest who wrote: "You made us feel completely cared for in ways we didn't even know we needed."
“ ”You made us feel completely cared for in ways we didn’t even know we needed.””
This is what revolution looks like in 2025. Not loud. Just relentlessly, beautifully intentional.
The vision extends beyond Supercalla's growing collection of South Coast luxury holiday homes. Bede sees a network of extraordinary properties, each humming with life and story. Property partners who feel proud. Guests who feel seen. Regional destinations thriving because someone chose quality over quantity.
“We’re building more than a business,” he says. “We’re building a quiet uprising against ‘good enough”
The rebellion is spreading. Other small, independent operators are raising the bar, choosing soul over scale, stories over statistics. Creating something bigger together while holding onto that rare warmth only the thoughtful ones can deliver.
Because somewhere tonight, someone will open a door expecting escape. And they'll find exactly what they came for.
Supercalla Private Properties curates exceptional coastal holiday homes across the South Coast.
Properties and partnerships: supercallaprivateproperties.com.au
This article was published in partnership with Supercalla Private Properties. As always, all storytelling and creative direction are uniquely Salty.
A Quiet Revival on the Far South Coast
A Quiet Revival on the Far South Coast
Sunlight filters through ancient gums. A long deck stretches out over the Towamba Valley. Each safari tent is a pocket of reverence carved into the wild.
Currajong Retreat is anchored in the art of slowing down, offering a retreat re-made around salt-tinged air, misty dawns, and regenerative country life.
The river runs slow and time runs slower.
It's kidding season—when new life arrives in soft, silent leaps. Angelic Angora goat kids tumble from wobbly legs and bound with discovery. Their playful innocence infuses every paddock, every gathering. Guests arrive with curiosity; they leave with wonder.
This is a sensory anchor. The season lifts the stay from luxury accommodation to life-felt experience. You wake to the sound of gentle bleating. You watch tiny hooves navigate morning dew. You witness the tender care of mothers and the boundless joy of new beginnings.
By Charms Baltis
“There is nothing cuter than watching kids jump and play as they explore their new world.”
Sunlight filters through ancient gums. A long deck stretches out over the Towamba Valley. Each safari tent is a stillness-and-spark moment carved into the wild.
Currajong Retreat is anchored in the art of slowing down, offering a retreat re-made around salt-tinged air, misty dawns, and regenerative country life.
The river runs slow and time runs slower.
Life Begins at Kidding Season
It's kidding season, when new life arrives in soft, silent leaps. Angelic Angora goat kids tumble from wobbly legs and bound with discovery. Their playful innocence infuses every paddock, every gathering. Guests arrive with curiosity; they leave with wonder.
This is a sensory anchor. The season lifts the stay from luxury accommodation to life-felt experience. You wake to the sound of gentle bleating. You watch tiny hooves navigate morning dew. You witness the tender care of mothers and the boundless joy of new beginnings.
The kids don't perform for guests, they simply exist in their wild joy while you happen to be there.
The Story of Land, Love, and Stewardship
Lara, Grant and Jenny's journey echoes the rhythms of this place. They left city life for mudbrick beginnings, goat paddocks, and solar-lit nights. Jenny swapped preschool chaos for labours of love with their growing herd. Together, they built Currajong Common and Currajong Retreat, tending land, architecture, and heart in the same breath.
Each season adds new layers to their story: riverbank gardens, regenerative grazing, the homestead revival, and the tented enclave that softly floats above valley slopes.
A Retreat That Honours the Senses
Perched above the Towamba, each tent is poetry of intention: queen bed, waterfall shower, kitchenette, and signature outdoor bath on a private deck, warmed by sunrise and cooled by night stars.
Off-grid luxury that blends wild solitude with comfort. Swimming holes replace schedules. The only thing on your to-do list is a warm bath with a valley view.
Country-style dinners arrive at your door, menus crafted to honour dietary needs and local abundance. The tents are spacious, the food is local, the nights wrapped in silence, broken only by wind through gums and a cork popping on the deck.
This is disconnect in order to reconnect. Each tent offers private sanctuary amidst the bush, space to breathe whilst remaining gently connected to place. Just the sound of the river, birdsong, distant goat chatter.
Off-grid luxury that blends wild solitude with comfort.
Swimming holes replace schedules. The only thing on your to-do list is a warm bath with a valley view.
Why This Matters Now
In a world that demands constant motion, Currajong offers radical stillness. Where others chase experiences, this place lets experience find you. A goat kid bounds across your path. Mist rises from the valley. Stars appear without announcement.
Slow luxury: elevated comfort without disregard for quiet or authenticity.
Nature-first living: each moment shaped by goats, mist, campfire, starlight.
Intention in every detail: lighting, food, farm experiences, hand-curated.
Emotional simplicity: a place that works on you quietly, weeks after you've left.
This is what happens when founders don't just build a business, they tend a place. When the work is generational, the care runs deeper.
Stay Wild, Stay Still
This is kidding season at Currajong. A chapter of new life is unfolding. You could be part of it, watching wobbly legs find their footing, witnessing the tender chaos of mothers and young, feeling the deep contentment that comes from bearing witness to something pure.
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