Beanie Season reaches Northern Rivers

Many of you living further south, would have been feeling the cold weather some time ago. Up here in Northern New South Wales it has only really just started, almost on the official calendar day, for a change. Even our Autumn started showing colour in the leaves during Autumn, instead of beginning in Winter, as it so often does.

As I have been making plans to try and get to Alice Springs for the Beanie Festival this year, I thought I may have a lift, sharing driving and costs, with someone living near by. We actually met on Sunday, and found out about each other's lives a bit, and reasons for wanting to go. Turns out she is not quite able or prepared to make the journey this year, after all. But the prospect, got me going, and I set up a double stretcher outside, to test out both the stretcher, which I found in the best local opportunity shop, for my friend Nelly Patterson, and how warm I would be sleeping outside on a really cold night.

Both nights had the temperature down around 10 C, not as cold as down in the valleys either side which were around O or 1, but still fairly cold. I know it was cold as I work online, outside to pick up better reception and I was extremely rugged up, like today, it may be warm in the sun when the wind isn't blowing, but in the shade with the wind chill factor it is very chilly.

But with one of my thermal X beanies on (pictured above), I was very snug and warm.

Later I trial-ed a fluffy white hood, also purchased at fav oppy, and it was more appropriate for sleeping in, being soft, snuggly and has scarves attached for wrapping up over my mouth, when the temperature dropped lower. My sunset beanie is perfect for sitting outside working in the night-time cold, and the early morning especially if windy.

As I await a call from another friend also thinking about going to Beaniefest, I am looking online at CoSeats.com for a Relocatable van that needs to be returned to the Alice Springs depot, which is another good way to travel independently and be able to take whatever gear you need, which traveling on a plane doesn't allow.

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