"I want the Best Job in the World!"

Ahoy all!

I received a surprising email today and in the subject heading it read, "this one is for you." I have to mention that the person who sent me the email is rather a slithery fish - who knows what I was about to read. Hats off to my good friend James who nailed it on the fish head. "The Best Job in the World."

I went to the Tourism Queensland website to get more information on the job description. If any of you are still in the dark about the hype - within 2 days 800,000 people went to the site for information about the Paradise Caretaker on Hamilton Island in the Great Barrier Reef! The Tourism Queensland website had approximately 40 hits per second today and the servers...surprise surprise, crashed.

What a Caretaker of Paradise would be responsible for:

1. Feeding the fish in the Great Barrier Reef and bashing around the bushes looking for water snakes
2. Snorkeling and splashing around while feeding the fish
3. Taking photos while exploring - EASY!
4. Making cool videos while splish-splashing with the fish and drinking a coconut shake
5. Blogging weekly - For blogs-sake!
6. Flying around with the postal service to get a birds eye view of the fish
7. Meeting the locals - FUN!
8. Meeting with media moguls - "Why yes Mr. President" and "Here, here!"
9. Helping handle billions of applications for season #2 "The Best Job in the World."
10. Learning to cope with stress ( I just needed a #10...what stress?)

Hellooooo! Yes, living on the beach taking care of turtles and meeting all the other local characters while sipping a coconut shake out of a real coconut is definitely where I want to spend 6 months. Do they have coconuts in Australia? Shoot, I hope so otherwise I am forgetting the whole thing! Did I mention that the pay is $105,000? Exactly - HELLO!

I have spent the last three years travelling internationally as a Tour Leader. But alas, there is one continent that I have not yet visited - Australia...and Australia here I come!