Victoria's View | 9 December 2025

Hiya Hinchinbrookshire!

Another busy week has come and gone, and I think this last weekend was probably one of my busiest yet! A few weeks ago when we met with Hinchinbrook Shire Council and they mentioned there had been community requests for a Christmas Lights Trail, a guide to the region’s best festive displays, and they wondered if we might put one together.

At the paper, we are always keen to deliver for the community, so we decided to accept the challenge!

Sherie and I hopped in the car and hit the roads, and went full-on “light hunt” mode to track down all the local Christmas displays for you. We drove around for ages, oohing and aahing at all the lights. Then we turned our road trip into our very special Christmas Lights Trail, ready for you to follow too.

You can check it out on pages 6 and 7 and don’t forget to peek at some of last year’s best displays! Hope you love it as much as we enjoyed creating it for you.

It is so wonderful to get out and see everybody enjoying the Festival of Events and all the other end-of-year celebrations in between. It sounds like the whole Hinchinbrook Shire is carolling up a Christmas storm before the actual wet season hits.

On that note, are you prepared for the wet? The Hinchinbrook Shire Council has published many great tips on how to get prepared, useful checklists, and helpful information sessions. If you have somehow missed those on their Facebook pages, the Hinchinbrook Life publishes it all too, so keep a copy of us handy. You never know how much you will enjoy a crossword by candlelight once the power goes off and you have nothing else to do.

Victoria

Fun Fact: The Grinch first appeared in the 1957 children’s book How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr Seuss and has since become a beloved Christmas figure.