THE MOST DANGEROUS THING IN AUSTRALIA DOESN'T HAVE SHARP FANGS AND WILL STALK YOU FOR MONTHS
I was lucky enough to have lived in Australia when I did my Master's degree there years ago and it was truly an amazing experience with my first month being not unlike the show Survivor. Australian summers are beautiful but, they are some of the hottest, most humid tests of human endurance in the known universe.
I had moved to Australia with about a month left of summer and I was not prepared for the brutally hot beatdown that awaited me. How would I even survive until fall arrived? I could only dream of experiencing the comfortable weather of an Australian winter. Each day the heat would extract from me liquids that could have been tears, sweat, blood, or all of the above that would sting my eyes constantly when I was outdoors. Winter is coming, I kept telling myself to keep up my will to live, winter is coming... It was so intense that I completely forgot all about the poisonous snakes, deadly spiders, sharks, and crocodiles that were waiting to kill me.
Then one day that all changed when I discovered the Queen Victoria Building and its lifesaving air-conditioned, underground tunnels that connected to many points in the Central Business District (CBD). It was my first truly happy day in Australia since I had arrived. The bonus was that the QVB as the locals call it (get used to abbreviations for everything down there) was just a few blocks away from my place so I could actually jump into its air-conditioned arms before I exploded in flames. What I'm saying is if you're in the CBD and you need shelter, jump into the QVB.
Oh, and it's also a beautiful heritage building, Sydney is amazing, Australia is full of adventure, and the shrimps are the size of squirrels, oi, oi, oi!
Let me know if you've been to Australia and whether you've experienced summer Down Under. Also, let me know if I'm overreacting about the deathly heat of an Australian summer. When I recover from the PTSD from this memory, I'll write more about tips and stuff about Australia.