The best job in the world?
Updated on 12 January 2009
Tourism chiefs in Australia are advertising "the best job in the world".
They are looking for a caretaker willing to spend six months exploring the tropical islands and waters around the Great Barrier Reef.
The successful applicant will move into a rent-free three-bedroom villa, complete with pool, on Hamilton Island in Australia's Whitsunday Islands and the six-month post comes with a salary of £70,000.
The caretaker will have to write a weekly blog, photo diary and video updates to attract visitors to the reef's 900 islands.
Applicants will need a year's "relevant" experience, excellent communication skills and "a willingness to try new things".
Below the water, the Great Barrier Reef stretches for 1,600 miles across 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands and is the world's largest coral reef system with "an abundance of wildlife", a spokesman for Tourism Queensland said.
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