An Aussie Christmas

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We had a very nice Christmas Day in Agnes Water and hope that everyone at home had a great few days too!
We started our day in the traditional way - with a few pressies. We'd done our shopping in Brisbane and bought presents that could be used like books and cds. I am also now the proud owner of a small wombat called Aussie Bob (watch out for him!).
We sat around a bit for the morning, I made a bracelet and Chris played on his new Mario game that I'd bought for him. Feeling quite hot we thought it would be fun to go for a swim. It felt very odd to be in a swimming pool on Christams Day!
We barbequed up our nice fresh reef fish and had our christmas dinner hiding in the van from all the flies who wanted to share it with us. In the afternoon we took a drive to the main beach and sat for an hour or so reading our books and people watching. There were quite a few people down there, it seems like the Australian thing to do after Christmas lunch is go to the beach for a boogie board, a surf or for a game of beach cricket.
We had a nice evening - turkey sandwiches, fizzy wine and silly hats. We queued for the pay phone with all the other brits to phone home and then retired to bed after a few more glasses of wine.

Rather than lazing around and eating more turkey sandwiches as should be done on Boxing Day, we decided to do our longest drive so far. We're running short on time a bit and it's a bloody long way to Cairns. We drove around 700 kms up the Bruce Highway (!!) to Airlie Beach the gateway to the Whitsunday Islands.