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A Place for People Alone Over the Festive Season

Eagle Ray
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Hi, I just thought I’d start a thread for those of us who will be alone on Christmas Day or during the festive season generally and would like somewhere to chat and connect.

 

I will most likely have a quiet Christmas Day at home, cooking some simple meals as I usually do and enjoy my hobbies such as photography and photo editing. I might go for a swim in the ocean.

 

Feel free to connect here on Christmas Day or over the festive period if you are alone and would like somewhere to chat. You might like to share how you are making it an enjoyable time or reflective time or whatever it is for you. Feel free to share anything festive you are doing and also feel free to share if you are not doing festive activities. Also, feel free to share if you are with others on Christmas Day but feeling a bit lonely as I know that can happen sometimes too.


Wishing everyone a peaceful time over the holiday season 🤗

Eagle Ray

 

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Nice to hear from you Beaser. Yes, feel welcome to check in on Christmas Day. I look forward to hearing what others are doing too, no matter how quiet. Christmas can certainly be whatever we want it to be.

 

All the best and, yes, chat soon 🙂

ER

More people have started rolling in here over the wkend but it hasn't even began . Some come in groups of 40 or 50, some even double that, others at least 5 or 10.

One clan could be 10 tents a few vans a few car sleeping tents and then all their cars and take up 100mtrs along the river, just the 1 group.There can be dozens of those all along. My strip here is 3 or 300mtrs then there's gaps of  bush and tracks all the ways along down for ks' , and then there's a rbig river beach around the bend. All those gaps in the tress right along get all filled ith 100s and 100s more and the beach down bend already has a few 100vans there,they'll all be 1mtr apart all the way along in a few more days except for the bushy gaps  with trees in between.

lt should be heaven and almost is if your one of them up here on holidays and having a ball but if you seem to be the only one along 10k of river and bush on your own and end up bombarded with all these groups all around you and partying up,  it's just downright depressing.

l tried to set up in an away spot , knew it was all coming seen it on wkends here too. l'm 25mtrs back away from the river, tucked back in the trees. Normally no one sets up close to or around this spot and l tried to place the van on a private angle facing away from the crowds that'll come, but already someones come and setup 7mtrs over right in front of my van door , can't win. They don;t usually set up that close to hare but now others will see them there and come set up all around them too, that's what people do, it's weird but they do.

 

l'd be quite cool on my own for this one otherwise no problem , but all this man, talk about salt in the face. Next few days there'll prob be tipple the people here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh wow rx, that’s intense. It sounds like sardines packed in. While I thought you might have company that’s way more so than I imagined. I understand that feeling a bit much, having people just 7 metres away. I guess it’s a bit difficult to find somewhere else now, at least on the river.

 

Well I hope at least it’s not too hot on Christmas Day. I hope you can find some respite in a book or an afternoon nap or coming to chat here. I’m in Perth at the moment and it’s intensely hot but heading home to my town tomorrow which is cooler. My town tends to bust at the seams this time of year so it’ll be getting hectic there too.

Yeah l've only seen it packed like that on one long wkend but it's been as peaceful as though ever since. So l decided to risk just staying put now to get through Christmas bc it;s such a gorgeous area and it wasn't looking bad too until just a few days ago. Kingdom for a crystal ball sometimes right.

l knew there'd be some turn up for sure but unfortunately it looks like it's gonna get packed again. There's lots of other spots all through the area but if this one gets packed they'll all be packed soooo, l'll have to ride it out now by the look. 

So your heading back tomorrow hey , probably lucky you won't be in Perth at least l guess l suppose that'll be bursting too.

l'm planning on heading down to the coast in a wk or 2, too hot up here for me, just wanna let Christmas and holiday traffic blow over first.

And yep, gonna be hot , 38 and 40, spend the days in the river looking at my toes ha ha.