Merry Christmas: May We All have a Peaceful 2023

Thanks everyone who read Submarine Matters in 2022. Even a bigger thanks to readers who left good blog comments or commented directly to me by Email. 

Australia's Christmas (being Southern Hemisphere) is the hottest time of year. Temperatures average around 30ºC during XMAS day and 17ºC at night. 

Christmas feasts are frequently in the cooler evening on December 25. often with cold seafood (especially prawns/""ShrimpS" on the barbie), cold ham and warm turkey  (CHICKEN IS ALWAYS BETTER..:) and cold beer. 

I miss the really cold WHITE christmases in FALLINGBOSTEL, THEN A TANK BASE IN WEST germany, were i spent two years AS A LITTLE KID in 1965-66.

a collins sub enjoys a tropical sunset at christmas

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SURFIN SANTA AND FRIENDS IN AUSTRALIA 

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CHRISTMAS BEACH "BUNNIES" IN AUSTRALIA. LUCKILY THEY'RE 20 YEARS OLD :) IN THAT REGARD I'M MUCH TAKEN WITH CHERYL, AN IRISH FOLK AND OPERA SINGER, SINGING THIS CAROL. HERE IS CHERYL AGAIN.
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HERE'S A christmas carol of brotherhood
even between OPPOSING PILOTS 

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have a merry, safe CHRISTMAS AND A  PEACEFUL NEW YEAR.

Pete