Walkabout Essentials

Redefining Cool … Naturally ... Keep it simple, keep it cold, with a Walkabout Essentials from the Didgeridoonas® Collection of ice-free coolers. Simply grab the drink of your choice, slip it into your Walkabout Essentials, and enjoy! Your Walkabout Essentials will adopt the temperature of whatever you put in it – hot or cold – and hold temperature for up to 4-6 hours. Helping ensure the last sip is as fresh and refreshing as the first. The spacious, twin, gusseted pockets give you the ability to carry both a drink and the day’s essentials in this single, streamlined, shoulder-slung carrier.

Sheer Simplicity ... An active insulator, pure Australian Wool is still the best insulator on the planet. Water-repellant, but vapor absorbent, the Wool insulation absorbs the temperature from the vapor coming off your drink, creating a thermal lock. As your drink warms (or cools) the Wool releases the stored cold (or hot) back into the cooler for extended life. Man-made, largely petroleum-based insulators, simply create a passive temperature barrier. And, unlike these man-made materials which lose their insulating capacity when wet, Wool maintains 100% of its thermal properties in all conditions.

Sheer Performance ... Wool fiber is extremely durable, making it particularly well suited for rugged, repeated use applications. Aussie Wool is more durable than synthetic and other natural fibers. When paired with ultra-tough Australian oilskin canvas, your Walkabout Essentials has a life expectancy measured in decades, not mere months or years. First sip to last, your Walkabout Essentials will keep your cold drinks cold, or hot drinks hot, and will sustain the fun for many years to come. You can wear it out, but you’ll have a great time doing so.

Sheer Sustainability ... The World has awakened to the importance of using renewable, sustainable resources for the long-term health of our Families and Planet. Australian Wool is organic, abundant, renewable, and sustainable. In addition to outperforming and outlasting man-made insulators, Wool is biodegradable and compostable, offering many environmental benefits to the ecosystem. We can simulate Nature, but we cannot replicate it. When it comes to finding the best insulator on the planet, there is nothing better than Mother Nature at her very best.

Sheer Brilliance ... The genesis of these amazing ice-free coolers can be traced back to the great Wool surplus of the mid-1990’s. Barbi & Leigh Hemming produced Wool blankets, outerwear, and other Life accessories on the Gold Coast of Australia. Concerned for their Farmer friends who produce Wool, Barbi & Leigh began searching for new uses. In a stroke of brilliance, they asked themselves: “We use wool to keep people warm, can we use wool to keep things cold?”

The Hemmings set out in hopes of creating a soft-sided cooler which would keep ice frozen longer than traditional ice-box coolers. Little did they know until the completion of their original Australian Cooler Bag that they had in fact created a cooler which does not require ice.

In 1995, the Didgeridoonas brand of Wool-insulated coolers was launched in Australia. In 2000, the Phillips Family of Cape Woolamai Mercantile were given a Woolly Wine Cooler as a gift. In 2005, we began importing these premium ice-free coolers to America.

Sheer Support Cape Woolamai Mercantile is in the business of making Life more comfortable … guaranteed. Visit the “What to Know” section of this site to get ideas on how to best use and care for your Didgeridoonas® ice-free coolers, and to learn about the Cape Woolamai Performance Guarantee.