Christmas Island. (AFF community report)

[kookaburra75]

I don’t know if the CI club is still operating, but I do remember that as a way to keep out pretty much anybody but white people, the club made the income requirement to join so high only one person could join who was not European, and that was the chief of police.

The state of the CI when I went in 2018.

A pity in some ways, as you can see the views. Probably the downside of trying to make it 'exclusive'. But, I'll have to take MrsK as she hasn't seen the place.
Next question, what's happened to the Casino?

 

[Scr77]

Lots of ads for Christmas Island on regional Victoria TV tonight.

 

[get me outta here]

My daughter is there now. The baby red crab season is the biggest it’s been for a very long time.

Sunset, and a turtle track.

 

[Scr77]

My daughter is there now. The baby red crab season is the biggest it’s been for a very long time.

Sunset, and a turtle track.

Any photos of the baby dots coming back in?

 

[Scr77]

Any photos of the baby dots coming back in?

Found some!

 

[get me outta here]

Not bitey, but they do tickle. . And of course you don’t want to step on them.

 

[k_sheep]

Wow, adding to the list!

Why is the bucket list getting longer as I travel more?

 

[get me outta here]

For the rego plate collectors: I think the pictorial plates must've come later. I have some of the blue ones.

 

[Scr77]

I lost a shoe to a robber crab, but this is impressive:

Giant robber crab nabs camera worth $6,000 before trashing it on Christmas Island

A Christmas Island robber crab has allegedly stolen and destroyed a thermal-imaging camera set up by a researcher studying one of the island's other native residents.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Scr77]

We’ll, my 4th visit to Christmas Island is coming to an end. Covid meant it took 3 attempts to get here and it was even easier to make a trip to USA in April 2022, than enter here. But there is something special about this place.…Something about the remoteness, the people and the island way of life.

Perhaps I’m just over the Victorian rat race and rules & regulations, but this place needs to be on every adventurers list.



…and the outdoor cinema is still only $5 per adult.

 

[Virgin Bart]

It is indeed a bloody fantastic place.

 

[kpc]

Out of interest, I checked and could not find Va awards Per-Xch all of Nov this year.

 

[antycbr]

Out of interest, I checked and could not find Va awards Per-Xch all of Nov this year.

I believe there are no longer award seats assigned to this route. I also believe that this route is excluded from the guaranteed award seats for Gold or Platinum members.

 

[drross]

I believe there are no longer award seats assigned to this route. I also believe that this route is excluded from the guaranteed award seats for Gold or Platinum members.

Agree. Couldn’t get any last time I visited. Told ‘none available’

 

[Simsy85]

I lived there for a year - great place.

 

[Cossie]

For the rego plate collectors: I think the pictorial plates must've come later. I have some of the blue ones.

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There are some plates in collectors hands, I have 2 white on blue and one “road kill” graphic, i.e., well used!
I know of a few “A” plates, not many though. Apparently they were easy to get once, now quite difficult. Cocos and Keeling even more difficult. If you know of any that may have fallen off the back of a truck, please let me know.

Over the past few years I have 2 friends go there in an official capacity and tried to get plates for me without success.