One lump or two 19/05/09

It's amazing how things work out; one minute we are wondering and stressing over what/where/ how the next bit of the journey is going to happen and whether or not we'll be able to find work, when an email appears out of the blue from one of the emails that was sent last month enquiring if we would still be interested in a tour guiding job in Mackay...... errr now let me think. YES!

So after a few phone calls and an agonizing few days wait, we have the job if we can sort out our Light Rigid vehicle licenses and driver authorisation to carry passengers and so we have upped sticks said goodbye to our friends and left Stanthorpe via the medical centre for a medical and the Queensland transport centre to submit the forms and book our tests in Mackay.

The jobs are as tour guides to the famous Fairleigh sugar mill in Mackay which sounds so exciting, truly it does after 3 month of apple picking anything would sound exciting. One of us will be a driver (hopefully me (Bryn) if I pass the driving test) and the other will be the guide and we should be working about 30-40 hours a week depending on the tourist season and as the big recession is now looming over here it may be less who is to know.
The good thing is that we have work and it's got us out of Stanthorpe which was freezing between sunset and sunrise (-4C the other day EEEK) and are heading to warmer climates. So now we are currently heading north and have camped in Chinchilla for the night by a weir (it may be lovely but it's too dark to see so will have to wait till the morning).