Christmas spent with family on the Queensland coast is rather different from our usual festivities down south.
For a start, there’s the rain. Incessant rain.
Down in Melbourne we’re accustomed to four-seasons-in-one-day squalls and showers, but this is serious, no kidding, beware-of-floodwaters-type rain. Whilst no cyclones are predicted to make landfall in southern Queensland next week, neither is the rain expected to let up any time soon.
Shopping malls are jam-packed – on Christmas Eve, we simply abandoned attempts to find a parking spot at two – and we no longer envy the ‘grey nomads’ foresighted enough to have secured beachfront campsites, now huddled in vans and dripping tents. Continue reading
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