Christmas down under

We all know Australian quarantine and customs is ultra strict, they don't let much pass through them. Ok, that little twerp Johnny Depp managed to smuggle a couple over-sized rats disguised as small dogs named Pistol and Boo in to the country on his private jet; the threat of 10 years jail and/or $102,000 in fines might be a deterrent after all to him and his wife after creating a bio-security threat. 

So, what are their chances of letting a bunch of reindeer through border control after trampling around central and South-East Asia? Yeah, unlikely with concerns of foot and mouth, rabies or a whole bunch of other diseases foreign to Australia - forget it.

So at Darwin, the reindeer are unhitched and placed in quarantine and six white boomers; that is large male kangaroos, are hitched up to the sled for the great southern continent delivery run. Let's face it, reindeer don't much like the hot summer nights, they are much more suited to the snowy fjords of the northern hemisphere winter. 

This is summer, this is the southern hemisphere and all the Christmas stories of snow and a white Christmas are totally irrelevant to us southerners. We have our own traditions and identity; Christmas is summer, let's be under no misconceptions here. When the weather is starting to heat up, we know Christmas is coming.