Jackier

Because we do actually get a summer and it's long and hot (isn't that the reason most of us came out here in the first place) What's not to like?????

Love it love it love it love it

Bring it on

Pollyana

If I'd known how long and hot the summer was going to be I would never have got married and come here, I'd have made hom move north instead.
Whats not to like? The cyclones, floods, torrential rain...........I know there are thousands of people in Queensland dreading this summer.

I do like the storms though, they can be pretty spectacular!

macy

I love love love it to........ even when I was stuck in the UK I kinda figured out that Oz was going to be hot in the sumer. can't understand why people are surprised about it...??? Anyway I love summer....

1) Love the smell of Jasmine in the garden
2) Love the lazy days spent at the pool, watching the kids play marco polo, buying the ice creams, eating the hot chips and then diving back into the pool afterwards... then leaving after being there all day long with tired but very happy kids and wanting to go back again tomorrow.
3) Love going for a walk in the early morning and watching the parrots flying
4) Love the glass of wine on the deck mid afternooon and a bbq on the go
5) Love the weekend break up the coast, driving up to the sunny coast, spotting the glasshouse mountains and the kids saying " are we there yet"
6) Just love love love the hot hot day, the afternoon storms...

Just love summer..

In Exile

aaah, tit monday. One of the great days of the annual calander.

http://www.titmonday.com/

DeadVim

Exactly not like that

A marvellous use of technology! No pics?!

brissybee

Yah.

Beach.

BadgeIsBack

Agree on that one.

In Exile

thirded.

I'm just not designed for the beach. I have red hair and pale-ish skin.
Summer is when I kind of hibernate into air conditioning and shade, winter is when I'm out and about. Australia: Not the wisest of country choice for ginger people!

Even so, the optimum time for a visit to the beach is about 30 minutes in my experience. Then I start getting fidgety as there's not a lot to do. A pair of wrap around sunglasses with very dark lenses is MANDATORY. and not for the sun. see my earlier post.

Summertime for me, though, means loads of awesome scuba diving in and around Sydney.

jad n rich

Not the wisest choice for the fair hair, fair skinned blue/green eyed people either.

You dont even have to sunbake, summer UV levels mean a walk to the car/washing line can be damaging.

Cringe every time I see newly arrived poms 'tanning' the kids. Same as giving them 20 cancer sticks a day to smoke.

Noticed last summer BOM was calling UV levels of 16!!!! some days.

In Exile

an image of Australia that sticks with me was driving through Bondi on Christmas Day 2007/8 and seeing all of the drunk backpacker new-arrivals (I'll assume) from the night before asleep/passed out on the beach at about 11.45am

Some had gone a bit brown. Most were red and looked like blistered corned beef.

the troubadour

Agree. Don't find summer much fun here at all. Winter has been great here in Perth this year barely a cold day at all.

Turban Explorer

DeadVim

Fourthed!

I am also fair-skinned and the appeal of sitting on a beach gradually accumulating sand where it shouldn't be doesn't appeal.

However, I do like a coastal walk with the sea air, the sound of surf and a sense of space out into the distance. I'll skip the beach thing.

In fact I skip it so much that my Aussie OH and the kid go off to Brunswick Heads to camp and swim in the surf just before Christmas for a week or so and it is the unwritten rule that I am quite happy to stay at home and leave them to it

jothefw

Tried to get in there at Easter but where the flood waters had gone through, the ground was still saturated so we couldn't get in. Where we did get through the poor river looked a little battered and bruised, lots of fallen trees!

We went in and out of various river camping points and ended up trying 4 or 5 before we set up camp!

We'll try again later this year.

JoeBloggs80

Lying there all day every day I agree, but pop down for a couple of hours, catch some rays, read a book/paper, have a swim, lovely

Have fun sitting in front of your computer all day