Inland in search of Work

Childers is our destination today, but there are 100’s of backpackers here so there is little work unless you stay at a caravan park for a couple of weeks. All the farmers just ring the caravan parks to get workers and they let the ones who have stayed there longer have the jobs so it’s a little of scratching each others backs. We spend the night at the tourist park listening to the Sale one night stand on JJJ and watching the AFL on the TV

We drive to Woodgate Beach. QLD best kept secret apparently. After checking in at the caravan Park. We went for a 4WD along the beach & NP had lunch and a fish. Caught a huge puffer fish and a big fish nearly snapped my rod but he got off with my rig.
Back at the park and we decide to go to the bowling club for tea and some beers.

I’m up fishing early and within 5 minutes something just bites of the hook and tracer and swims off. There are 2 small sharks swimming up and down the surf just in front of me maybe 25-30m off shore. There are also 2 big sharks terrorising a school of large fish about 100-150m out from shore. I can actually see there fins above the water as they attack the fish. Huge fish are jumping out of the water. And you know what I cant get a bloody bite. It was a good show and the sunrise coming through a huge storm cloud made for fantastic morning show, it’s a shame I can’t catch a fish. QLD is becoming a little like SA where everyone says you need a boat to catch fish.

We pack up and drive to Mundubbera a Citrus town. This place is full of backpackers as well and the Imperials (mandarins) have just finished being picked. So no work here either. We stayed at Black Stump rest stop just out of town.

We are awoken by a big smash and broken glass. Someone has run into our Caravan while we are asleep. It’s a van owned by 3 French Girl Backpackers. The A/C smashed their rear window and luckily only our rear bar was bent. It is only fair that they should have to give us their jobs but I supposed they need it more to pay for the new window.
We search around for more work but no luck and head to Gayndah where Tina called the local Orange festival office to see if they had any work. Luckily they needed two bar workers because of the compulsory RSA law. We are working on Saturday & Sunday as the bar supervisors.
That night we stayed at the rest stop on the edge of town at Gayndah with another bunch of backpacking fruit pickers.