Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Continue going up north..

After Monkey Mia, Martin, my French buddy, and I went to Carnarvon. We heard it is supposed to be a place with tons of seasonal work. There were only 2 hostels in town, one was fully booked for weeks, and the other was cautioned by many horrible reviews. We had no choice but to stay there after one expensive night at a caravan park. The owners were really dodgy, with very limited office hours and sometimes work whenever as they please! A job orientation is supposed to happen everyday at 6pm, and one day they didn't open the door at all, so that wasted 1-2 of my days....doing nothing in this small town! Without a car, I couldn't really drive around looking for work. Even so, I heard most places have no work available anyways. I met up with Eric, Hugo and Wesley, whom are Laura and Tina's friends back home. They were living on a farm and they have a van also.

Anyways, after 4 days of waiting for work which never happened, I didn't want to waste my time anymore and decided to go up to the tropics- Broome.

It was a 19 hour Greyhound bus trip, and it was interesting to see various landscapes. I'm quite used to seeing red sand everywhere now, which makes a nice contrast with blue sky. I also see alot of pinkish sunsets that set on the straight horizon.

Broome is a small city with alot of backpackers and tourists at the moment. It is famous for its Cable Beach, very expansive with turquoise water and white sand. Some other wonders of nature includes "staircase to the moon," a monthly phenomena where the moon comes out of the water in a red colour with the reflection looking like staircase. There are also boab trees here and mangrove, where the trees live part time in the water by the sea.

I'm not sure if I can find work here because there are too many backpackers here now. I am also probably too late for pearl farm recruiting too. Let's see how it goes... not sure if I have time to have the option to extend a second visa now.

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