{"id":84835,"date":"2025-08-20T23:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T23:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/84835\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T23:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T23:42:12","slug":"billionaire-elon-musk-spotted-in-bella-bella-b-c-over-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/84835\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire Elon Musk spotted in Bella Bella, B.C., over weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Airport shuttle driver Sean Carter has lived in the remote northern British Columbia community of Bella Bella for almost nine years and says the small coastal village occasionally gets a celebrity visit.<\/p>\n

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Maybe a movie star or former athlete on a fishing trip. But nothing too high profile.<\/p>\n

He said that was why he initially ignored a private jet at the local airport on Saturday \u2014 until he heard a commotion and people pulled out phones to take photos of Elon Musk<\/a>, the world\u2019s richest man.<\/p>\n

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But Carter did make sure to see Musk when he flew out on Monday, after getting a tip that he was on his way back to the airport in a helicopter.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSure enough, yeah, the Helijet came back maybe an hour, half an hour later, and Elon Musk was the first guy,\u201d Carter said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI had my big super-zoom camera with me \u2026 and sure enough, yeah, he\u2019s looking out the window at me and doesn\u2019t look too happy because I looked almost paparazzi-style, whereas everyone else just had their cellphones out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carter said his photos didn\u2019t turn out very well.<\/p>\n

But another person\u2019s photos published by the CBC show the Tesla CEO\u2019s arrival on Saturday at the fishing and logging community of about 1,000 residents for his trip with an unknown purpose, with a young boy on his shoulders.<\/p>\n

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An account on the social media platform X that tracks Musk\u2019s private plane shows it arrived in Vancouver on Saturday before flying out to Seattle, Wash., then San Jose, Calif., on Monday.<\/p>\n

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Tesla did not immediately responded to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Carter said he believed Musk may have been visiting James Murdoch, son of media magnate Rupert Murdoch, who has been reported to own a waterfront property nearby.<\/p>\n

Carter said the Bella Bella area sees some luxury yachts and private planes because of nearby fishing resorts, but it has rarely \u2014 if ever \u2014 been visited by someone as high profile as Musk.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a very small village,\u201d Carter said. \u201cAnd yeah, we\u2019ll get the odd celebrity, maybe movie star that goes through to a fishing lodge or an athlete, former athlete or something.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut to see the world\u2019s richest man \u2026 however you feel about him personally, it\u2019s still a big deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

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