A family from Brisbane, Australia, has chosen to spend Christmas in the remote outback instead of the typical holiday festivities. Driven by a desire for experiences over material possessions and influenced by past tragedies, they embrace the serenity and vastness of the Australian landscape.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.This Christmas , Lucy Michalakellis and her family are more than 1300 kilometres from their suburban home on Brisbane’s southside. Technically, they’re house sitting. They are, in fact, looking after a 200,000-hectare cattle station in Cameron Corner, where the borders of Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia meet, deep in outback Australia .
Lucy Michalakellis, 32, her husband Dimitri, 34, and daughters Pip, 6, and Josie, 3, are spending Christmas in the outback, more than 1300 kilometres from their Wishart home. This is not the first year Lucy, her husband Dimitri and their daughters, six-year-old Pip and three-year-old Josie, have skipped a traditional family Christmas. Heaving shopping centres. Even busier car parks. Back-to-back social engagements. And throw in the December heat and humidity. It’s a recipe for stress and exhaustion in the silly season.“I’ve always been somewhat of a minimalist, so when we started our family in 2018 we switched our focus to experiences rather than possessions,” Lucy said.“With not a lot of money, we started looking into house sitting and found a beautiful home in Adelaide to spend a month at in December 2019.”Mersina Axiom was killed by a drunk driver in Redland Bay“She was very into Christmas and I would say brought the most energy to family Christmas each year,” Lucy said. “None of it feels the same now without her.” The tragedy, and the following COVID years, reinforced the couple’s decision to eschew the traditional trappings of Christmas.“We spent our Christmas Day on a snowy little mountain in Montana just playing with our kids, eating a big pot of chilli and spending time together.” This year, Lucy spotted the opportunity to house sit in Cameron Corner on a Facebook page for Aussie Farm Sitters and jumped on it.“It’s beautiful out here,” she said. “The nearest neighbour is 60 kilometres down the roa
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