LAUNCHING STAGE TWO!

Great News!!! I just got my official acceptance today from Queensland Tourism. My application video is now online!

SO, what this means is that all of you who are following my blog will have one and possibly two opportunities to give me a big push towards the Reef.

HOW? you ask? By voting for my video as most popular. Yes, even when we're all grown up we play silly popularity games. But, I didn't make the rules, I'm just trying to take advantage of them!

So follow this link, and five star that sucker!! my video application!

Unfortunately, it runs more slowly (especially so on the island reef job site) on YouTube. Very frustrating of course after all the effort to see the video skip and lag so far behind the audio, but you work with what you've got right? =)

For a truer run, watch it in my blog here below. But don't forget to rate it 5 stars at the official site as that's how they'll know you guys are actually out there!!

FINALLY, some business to take care of. For you guys who have been with me from the start, thank you, thank you! As promised, I will be drawing a name and delivering up the winner a DVD of their choice having to do with Australia!!! You tell me what it is and it's YOURS!

I will make the announcement in tomorrow's blog! What will it be? Crocodile Dundee? Steve Irwin's Crocodile Hunter the Movie? The original Mad Max? Ah, the Man from Snowy River! OR, you may choose a movie that has an Aussie IN it! You pick, I send. Badabing, badabang!

See you all tomorrow, and don't forget to rate that video!

The Countdown has Begun...

Welcome to all of you! Thanks for checking out my blog. If you're reading this, it's likely because you've found out I've decided to try and land the best job in the world - of course "best job" is a relative term, but I'd say this one fits the title pretty well...

Check out www.islandreefjob.com for the details (WOW).

SO, I'm glad to share the journey with you, no matter how long or short it may be! I want to accomplish two things with this blog:

1. Keep you all updated on the latest in my efforts to get to the largest reef in the world - uh, that would be the Great Barrier Reef!

2. Ignite your imaginations with some of the coolest facts I can find about the GBR. Hopefully, you'll share your facts too, and this'll be a pretty cool place - like the Discovery Channel, except maybe way back when it was just starting...

You may be wondering why I'm interested in the job. Well, I'm asking myself the same question. Part of me thinks this is CRAZY and I don't stand a chance. I live half way around the world, am competing against all of those super-human peeps out there, and can't even speak Australian... (is that a language? j/k!)

Welcome to the way we feel about most things in life! So in a way, this is a challenge for me - a challenge to myself to stretch in ways I haven't before - hm, that sounds fun!! =/

The other part of me thinks WOW, INCREDIBLE, the PEFECT FIT! A job I'd do in a second if someone walked up and offered it to me. So why NOT? I mean, who wouldn't want to live on an island in the sun for 6 months, getting paid to explore 135,000 square miles of pristine ocean paradise!? Duh!

So, here's to nothin'. The clock is ticking. At this point I still have to create and upload my application video by February 22. I'll post it here in the next few days to get your opinion - if it stinks, I'll do it again, until we get something that works!!

PS - if you're applying for this job too - hmmm, uh, gee I don't know what to say! good luck!?

PPS - Did you know Mermaids live at the GBR? I'll show you a pic of one next time...