One thing I learned about travelling in Australia is that you should never make any plans as you wind up doing something completely different anyways. I returned to Cairns with the fixed plan to work in hospitality or agriculture as a fruit-picker, yet I found myself on the road again after just one day in Cairns, seated next to two lively Aussi brothers with the aim to travel across the country to the opposite side of the continent. Our destination was Karratha, a small town, where the money was supposed to lie on the streets. Joel and Lee had worked there before and said that the average pay, for a simple labourer, was 25 to 30 Dollars and at least 20 to 25 Dollars as a worker in a shop. This is due to its sizeable deposit of resources, such as iron-ore and salt.
We intended to arrive in Karratha within five to six days, covering more than 4000 kilometres. Halfway through the Outback though, our water pump gasped its last breath and we had to be towed away by the breakdown service. Waiting for the spare part, we were stuck for almost a week in ‘Daly Waters’, a locality in the middle of nowhere with nothing more than a service station and a couple of rooms. It could have been worse though as the in insurance paid for accommodation, which included a TV and a pool and we had still sufficient casks of goon to keep us entertained.
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