By theprofessionalhobo ~ June 21st, 2008. Filed under: Australia, Brisbane, World Nomads Ambassador Trip.
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In researching our World Nomads Ambassador trip in Australia, we knew that we would be charging headlong into winter. And after having avoided the frigid winter of mainland North America by being in Hawaii, I had started to think that maybe we would never see winter again. We could somehow manage to travel around the world in a way to permanently avoid winter.
Not so.
“Australia doesn’t get cold,” Kelly reassured me. “Heck – they surf all year around.”
“Yeah, and they surf in Halifax during the winter too. Doesn’t mean they’re not crazy,” I replied in my typical skeptic form. I don’t like the cold. Period.
No really. I don’t like the cold.
Either way, we are here, and driving (of all directions) south in the southern hemisphere, during the winter. As other travelers and residents we meet are moving north en masse, they eyeball us strangely and tell us to stock up on “woollies” and “jumpers” for the cold. If only I knew what a woolly or jumper was.
So the question needs to be asked: Are Australians just woosies when it comes to winter weather, or is it really that cold down south? If our time in Springbrook National Park was any indication, I’m stocking up on woolies and jumpers.
Read the rest of this s-s-shivery story on our World Nomads Ambassador Trip Journal here!
In researching our World Nomads Ambassador trip in 
