What have I been doing since ‘Earn Your Stripes’ finished?
After we all finished our last tour of the south west of Australia ending up in Perth. For the next couple of days myself and Romy spent the next couple of days at the Billabong backpackers with some of his friends, on the blag.
In this time finished all those blogs for STA, so felt pretty blogged out at this point so might explain why it has taken so long to write anything since then. Once our blag at Billabong ran out I moved to the Old Swan Barracks in Perth as this was a bit closer to the main part of town and was one of the cheapest places in Perth city to stay. From here I was to spend the next three weeks job hunting, mainly at the start looking for farm work so I could extend my visa for an extra year.
After a couple of weeks found myself starting to need a job as the money was starting to run out (never a good position to be in), so was looking for anything which was going, found myself a job for the weekends for a couple of hours working as a rep for McWilliams wine company promoting some of there different wines in bottle shops in the Perth suburbs.
This was a good job for me as I had a keen interest in wine and quite a bit of knowledge about the subject, from the years of work in restaurants and working on wine fairs, before I started to go travelling. The work was not too bad and the only really main downside was that I would only work for 3 – 4 hours a day.
During the following week I saw a job working in a restaurant in somewhere called Kununurra in the job shop after chatting with the girl working there she said if I was looking for farm work this would at least leave me in the right place to find a job. The town of Kununurra was created due to the damming of the Ord River in the 1960’s and the creation of the Ord River Irrigation Scheme.
So after three weeks in Perth yet again with no job I booked myself on a flight to Kununurra which was 2300 km north of Perth in the north east of Western Australia, for the next part of my adventure.
Tags: Earn Your Stripes, Kununurra, Ord River, Ord River Irrigation Scheme, Perth, Romy, statravel
