OT: Worth quitting electronics for?...

Reads like Lonely Planet meets Australian Idiot (Idol) meets (err, what was that Aussie show a few years back where they gave the contestants a video camera and sent them on a travel doco / adventure reporting thingo?) type contest. Sounds like Qld Tourism will try anything to attract visitors to the Banana Republic. :P

To me, it sounds like a job for an advertising/marketing/videographer/researcher/interviewer type of person all rolled into one.

Sure, the Qld Tourism marketing people have done their job in making the job sound very sexy. In truth, they want a cheap person to do their Hamilton Island advertising for them.

Considering the media attention this Job vacancy has attracted it has not only paid for itself but made a massive profit in free advertising.

you would be working 24/7 in such a job. Personally having been to an island or three, the novelty wears off after 48 Hrs.

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:23:57 -0800 (PST), "David L. Jones" put finger to keyboard and composed:

Just don't ask me to go snorkelling here:

- Franc Zabkar

Isn't that is what it is about?

Naah, it is worse. box jelly fish. that is why the lifesaver wear pantyhose.

Not too many box jelly fish around there - they tend to like warmer water.

Keith

Sorry, I thought Hamilton Island was in warm waters.

It is, they'd probably have sea snakes as well

The link in the post that you were replying to referred to Lake Illawarra.

Anyway you don't normally get box jelly fish out on the islands only down the mainland coast, they breed in the mangroves and washed out into the coastal waters by the monsoon rains.

Now the irukandji, thats different

Keith

If you have ever spent a significant amount of time up that way then you will know that it well worth quitting any electronics career for. In fact, if you have spent any time up there at all you will understand.

This is the state that has XXXX? The state where if you have a glass of dry ginger ale, they think you are drinking strong beer?

F*ck the beer, go check out that island. They probably dont even sell XXXX there.

You can buy most any beer you want there , and a lot of other things as well (winkwink_