Jopad

Hi there,

My Mum is giving me loads of grief of what clothes to take for our reccie. My sister lives on Magnetic Island and says it has been cold over there in the shade and told us to bring lots of warm clothes such as fleeces. We are travelling up from Brisbane all the way to Port Douglas. Just wondered if you guys are over there have climatised and us Brits still here will find it warm. As temperatures over here at the moment is 20-22degrees and find it quite warm, t-shirts and jeans weather. What clothes shall we take.

Thank you

grahampaula

hi there we recently returned from gold coast and it was about 22 -24 during the day but chilli at evening i think it will be a bit warmer up in port douglas . sure someone on here will let you know how warm it is up there .have a lovely time

Jopad

Many thanks for that info anything helps at the moment to get prepared. Hope you had a good time and was it depressing coming home?

moneypenny20

The last few weeks have hovered between 17 and 24 during the day down here. It's when the sun goes down it drops sharply. If you come from the UK, you might be fooled into thinking because it's warm in the day, you'll get balmy evening - you won't. It's damned chilly. Bring the fleeces and you won't need them. Leave them and you'll freeze.

Jopad

thanks guys

Pollyana

Brisbane is getting 8-9 degrees overnight at present if that helps

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ60900.shtml

will give you temps throughough the State

danbex85

I live on the Sunshine coast (about 1 hour north of Brisbane) and it is nice during the day but it gets really cold at night. I would definitely suggest that you bring some warm clothes for night time.

comet555

I second some warm clothes for the evening. We moved over from Canada at the beginning of May and we still find it cold in the evening.

During the day I will almost always wear a t-shirt out, although there were a couple days that were cool and windy so I needed a sweater (jumper). At night though our house is freezing since there's no heat. So I usually wear a sweater in the evening and then we cuddle up with a blanket on the couch. So it really does get cold.

One sweater, one long sleeve shirt and a light jacket would probably do it though. No need to pack a bunch of warm clothes. That's all I brought with me and I've been here a couple of months.
Have fun on your reccie.

Jopad

Thanks for that. What time does the sun go down? I have heard it gets dark early over there!

bcworld

Winter its dark shortly after 5pm and in Summer 7pm. Miss those long nights!

comet555

Yep, around 5pm right now. I had heard about it but was still shocked when it happened. It makes sense though it is winter right now.

I haven't been here in the summer, but I do think 7pm is still pretty early for summer. In northern Canada there were times in the summer where it was light until about 11pm. So that will be a big change!

bcworld

Well there's currently some very contraversial talk of South East Queensland joining the rest of eastern Australia and adopting daylight savings....this would mean an extra hour of daylight at the end of the day in Summer. I think this would be great....currently the day seems skewed toward the morning in Summer....the sun comes up early and it means by 0630 in the morning it can be 25C+ ....pretty unpleasant when you're rushing around in the morning.

it would of course be an 'hour warmer' at bedtime so you'd want to have that A/C cranked up!

Jopad

thanks for that,although very shocked it gets dark so early in the evening,that means we will have to make the most of daylight and get up early! Does that mean that everything closes early, such as shops etc? What time are the normal shop hours and out of curiosity what time are the normal office/working hours out there?

bcworld

Qld, even in Brisbane is somewhat the land that time forgot when it comes to shopping hours....well at the weekends anyway. Typically large stores, supermarkets close at 5pm on Saturdays, but curiously open later on Sundays 'til 6pm. I dont think there is such a thing as a 24hr supermarket in Qld?? I dont suppose the early closing at weekends is necessarily a bad thing & you will always find convenience stores open if you need to pick up something.

I think generally during the week supermarkets are open until 9pm....well in SE Qld anyway.

Rabc

I can see Magnetic Island from my patio! The weather during the day is a warm 24°C. The nights and early mornings are fresh at around 8-10°C but in no way chilly. We have just come back from the UK so can make a reasoned comparison. Bring summer cloths and a jumper or two but that's it. The temerature will be on the rise soon.

Have a great trip

Rob