Rah-Rah and Roos - Backpacking Australia: Farming, Flying, Diving, Drilling Australia

By Stephen Malins

In 2002, Steve, a 29 year old software engineer, travelled to Australia for a year after becoming jaded with London and office life - and before he got too old.

He stays on Bondi beach, learns to fly above the Sydney suburbs, develops a website, gets a farming job on a cattle station as a jackeroo, dives the Great Barrier Reef, and finds himself driving 19 tonne trucks in preparation for a drilling job in the Western Australia desert. Finally, joined by a mate from London, he hires aircraft with a syndicate and embarks on a troublesome flying tour of the southwest corner of Australia before undertaking a 4,000 kilometre road-trip from Perth to Alice Springs.

He enthusiastically follows the rugby league competition, gets a game, receives house-sharing offers from working girls and labours as a tree surgeon. Whilst he is there, he reflects on his adventures working in the IT industry overseas and as an Army Reserve paratrooper.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08HTP4NSN
• ISBN13: 9798683604813
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"