Summer Solstice

Summer solstice, three days before Christmas Eve?
Yeah, this will take some time to get used to.

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Winter Solstice 2024

Yesterday was the shortest day of the year on this side of the equator. Back home, everyone was celebrating Midsummer, the longest day of the year. But down here, today was just like any other day. We decided to not celebrate Swedish Midsummer, even if there was celebrations in Gold Coast.

We only had one plan and that was to watch the latest sunrise of the year at 6:38. So we walked out to the pier below Kirra Hill. As usual, the sunrise was incredible!

For brunch we went to Haig’s again and had the smashed avo sourdough. I think we are eating avo’s almost every day here, they are just too good! The rest of the day was very calm, Mikael had a massage and I have spent a lot of time reading on the balcony. Even if it was 24C, it was windy and surprisingly chilly so even if I at first thought that I would want to be at the beach and in the ocean, that didn’t happen. Oh well, it is midwinter.

These pictures are from Mikael’s fancy Sony camera: