Get paid $100,000 for spending six months on Australia's Great Barrier Reef

January 14, 2:56 PMLouisville Travel ExaminerZach Everson

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You could get paid $100,000 to live on Australia's Great
Barrier Reef for six months. (Photo: Flickr/sigusr0)

Want to travel to Australia, live in an oceanfront villa on the Great Barrier Reef for six months, and get paid 150,000 Australian dollars ($100,000) to blog about it?

If that package, offered by the tourist department of Australia's Queensland state, isn't the quintessence of budget travel, I don't know what is.

Don't believe this offer exists? Check out the job listing at www.islandreefjob.com.

According to Yahoo! News the job, which again, is "relaxing on Hamilton Island, part of the country's Whitsunday Islands, while promoting the island on a blog," is part of an Australian push to boost tourism.

And while the cost of airfare shouldn't preclude you from applying (it's included too), you should realize that competition will be intense. Plus, I'm sure I already have this job locked up.

The deadline for applications is Feb. 22. And even if you don't get the job, being one of the 11 finalists earns you a trip to Hamilton Island in May.

As I mentioned yesterday, a great, yet overlooked budget travel tip is to have someone else pay for, or at least subsidize, your travels.

But when compared to being paid $100,000 to live on Australia's Great Barrier Reef and blog about it, my road trip seems a lot less exotic.