55 Awesome Ideas For This Summer Christmas Season

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By Tom Raider Christmas August 8, 2018

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How much do we look forward to summer christmas? No need to answer that. At the end of a long year our traditional summer christmas break means the good times are about to roll. Tradies down their tools, kids belt out Alice Cooper’s – “School’s out for Summer”, Mums and Dads embrace some well deserved R & R and a newly gained licence for 18 year olds means freedom and the “best days of your life”.

And summer christmas is guaranteed to be action packed. The beach, the river, the mountains. Sport, sport and more sport.

To help you choose what to do, we’ve put together a list of awesome summer christmas fun activities…

Have A Blast At The Beach

    1. Go surf a wave
    2. Learn how to Stand Up Paddleboard
    3. Float about on your inflatable
    4. Snorkel amongst the reefs
    5. Bodysurf
    6. Try kneeboarding, bodyboarding or a surf ski
    7. Create mayhem with your supersoaker  
    8. Lay back, relax and catch a few rays
    9. Find buried treasure with a metal detector
    10. Go fly a kite
    11. Hit a six at beach cricket
    12. Toss a soft ball or toy with man’s best friend
    13. Have a sand sculpture competition
    14. Play a game of ring toss
    15. Toss a line and catch a fish
    16. Relax with a cold drink
    17. Take a romantic stroll
    18. Have a beach dance party
    19. Eat fish and chips sitting on the beach
    20. Spotlight for garfish
    21. Watch the sunset with a wine

Go Bush  For Your Summer Christmas

  1. Have a picnic in the shade
  2. Give mountain bike riding a crack
  3. Walk a trail
  4. Spotlight for wildlife at dusk
  5. Have your morning coffee with the birds
  6. Stargaze away from city lights
  7. Kick back and read a book

Relax By The River  

  1. Try wakeboarding
  2. Learn to waterski
  3. Float along with the current on an inflatable
  4. Search for Yabbies
  5. Toss in a line
  6. Hire a houseboat and meander along the river
  7. Set up camp
  8. Snooze on the riverbank
  9. Tell jokes around the campfire
  10. Play board games in the shade
  11. Kayak upstream

Be A Tourist In Your Own Town

  1. Go to the Big Bash
  2. Watch the Boxing Day or New Years Test
  3. See a Slam at the Australian Tennis open
  4. Cheer the Sydney to Hobart boats
  5. Attend an A League soccer game
  6. Hit the theme parks
  7. Make a splash at a waterpark

And it even gets hot spectating, so make sure you’ve got your drink bottle

Have a ‘Staycation’ And Holiday at Home  

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  1. Cool off at your local pool
  2. Visit the zoo
  3. Go for a bike ride
  4. Jump the sprinkler on the lawn
  5. Play backyard cricket
  6. Have a pool party
  7. Take in a flick at the movies
  8. Head to your local park for a BBQ
  9. Complete a video game

 

 

Ready For Your Summer Christmas?

So, with so much choice, summer Christmas is going to be a blast. It’ll be a summer Christmas to remember.

 

Tom Raider / About Author
Our wily wordsmith, Tom, is a key weaver of yarns and the chief storyteller at Octopus HQ. Tom writes words of wit and wisdom which can be read on Yellow Blogtopus. He also helps pen the praiseworthy product descriptions that help you decide what you feel like purchasing from us. Along with our Marketing Maestro, he helps brain storm and devise new plans for how to spread the name of Yellow Octopus to deserving Australians from Kakadu all the way to King Island.
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