It will be exactly 3 months and 3 weeks when we depart Hayman Island on Monday morning, but it feels like only yesterday we were unpacking our bags and getting our uniforms for work. Now we are starting to pack up, clean our rooms and plan the next phase of our journey. Many of our [...]
At almost 11 months into our journey here in Australia, today is a day that happens only once a year – my birthday. And while I have celebrated a few birthdays abroad, I would have never imagined that I would be spending my 26th on Hayman Island. Sky diving was the official “gift” from Andrew [...]
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, well it is a plane actually, a seaplane, landing on Whitehaven beach, one of the world’s most beautiful beaches. With only a few weeks left to go here at Hayman, making a trip out to Whitehaven beach is the last item on our “to-do” list. With a beautiful day [...]
It’s just another day in the Whitsundays, the sky is clear, the sun is shining, and we’re about to jump out of a plane at 13,000 ft above sea level. How the heck did I get here? I ask myself as I look down at the houses and roads that keep getting smaller and smaller [...]
With time ticking away here on Hayman we’ve started planning the next phase of our journey. The past two and a half months here have been great, but it’s now time to start looking forward to being on the road again. Phase one of our next journey will take us from Airlie Beach up to [...]
It’s 7:30 am on July 1st and Andrew and I are about to embark on a Cruise Whitsunday boat trip out to the Great Barrier Reef to celebrate Canada Day – Australia style. Ourselves along with 5 other Canadians, and one brave Australian, have planned an epic day to celebrate Canada and it’s 143 years [...]
After a long day of cleaning rooms, on the first day of rain here on Hayman Island, I checked my email and saw a line that turned my day around, “You’re in TNT Magazine!” After submitting my article on the pros and cons of living and working on a remote island about a month ago, [...]
It’s our second day of training on our open water PADI scuba dive course, and we are heading into the ocean straight away. After our two confined water dives in the pool and half a day of theory, we have the basics covered and are ready to get our feet wet, literally. Our first dive [...]
After 8 months in Australia, we find ourselves heading to Hamilton Island – the location of the “Best Job in the World” and our reason for packing up our lives and deciding to travel. Andrew and I both applied,(video featured above) and when we weren’t selected as the winners we thought, “What’s stopping us from [...]
It’s now been over two weeks of living on Hayman Island, and I have come to learn that there are both pros and cons of living and working on an island. And while some of the points below are specific to Hayman, I imagine that many other work/life scenarios in small isolated towns, islands or [...]
