What you need to know
Day To Day Duties
Driver Tour Guide East Coast - Day to Day Duties
A Cultural Ambassador
You are responsible for ensuring our clients have a positive and memorable experience on the east coast of Australia. It’s hard but extremely satisfying. Working in the great outdoors will keep you fit and strong. Driver Guides must work with many different nationalities and personalities under ever-changing conditions. You need to build trust and friendship so an empathetic and flexible nature helps.
You’ll be away for up to two to three weeks at a time. We have 7-day a week departures so you will be required to work weekends and public holidays. You do get plenty of days off between tours to relax and unwind.
Daily Duties include:
• Driving our brand new 37-seater or our 24-seat coaches
• Driving to a daily timetable
- safely, picking up and dropping off customers in various locations across the day
• Care of your vehicle and equipment including preventative maintenance checks; cleaning and tidying
• Managing group activities and assisting with customers trip and activity planning
• Giving on-board talks about how our product works and local cultural and geographical information
• Daily administration tasks such as fuel records; recording driving hours; booking accommodation
Please note: Compulsory fun - you will be required to participate in many activities such as: surfing, hiking, horse riding, white water rafting, scuba diving, snorkeling, boating, kayaking, biking, swimming, bungy jumping and skydiving to name a few.
The Itinerary
How our tickets work: customers can hop on and off our buses as often as they between Sydney and Cairns or Cairns and Sydney for up to 6-months. Each of our coaches takes 7-days to travel between Sydney and Cairns. We operate between four and seven departures a week. Along the way you and our customers will participate in daily activities such as surfing, lawn bowling, didgeridoo playing and guiding scenic walks.
Our drivers work seven days to Cairns and seven days back to Sydney with a few days off in between and a few days off in Sydney
A typical Sydney to Cairns Driver Guide itinerary includes:
(Note: Included activities are those included in the Oz Experience pass price. Optional activities are those our guests can choose to pay a small additional fee to participate in).
Day 1 – Sydney to Surf Camp, Arrawarra
Drop off pick up locations en-route: Coffs Harbour
Optional activity: Surf Museum
Day 2 – Surf Camp to Brisbane
Drop off pick up locations en-route: Byron Bay, Surfers Paradise
Included Activity: 3 hour morning surf lesson
Optional Activity: Zorbing Gold Coast
Day 3 – Brisbane to Hervey Bay
Drop off pick up locations en-route: Mooloolooba, Noosa, Rainbow Beach
Included activities: Wildhorse Mountain walk, aboriginal cultural presentation and didgeridoo demonstration with group participation
Day 4 – Hervey Bay to Kroombit Cattle Station
Drop off pick up locations en-route: Bundaberg, Town of 1770/Agnes Waters
Included activities: goat rodeo, mechanical bull riding, whip cracking. 2-course camp oven roast dinner with Aussie damper
Optional Activities: Goat muster on horseback, clay pigeon shooting, lookout walk
Day 5 – Kroombit to Airlie Beach
Drop off pick up locations en-route: Rockhampton
Included activities: barefoot lawn bowling
Day 6 – Airlie Beach to Townsville / Magnetic Island
Drop off pick up locations en-route: Bowen and Ayr
Optional activities: overnight on Magnetic Island in the only backpackers in Australia located right on the beach. Afternoon relaxing on the island.
Day 7 – Magnetic Island / Townsville to Cairns
Drop off pick up locations en-route: Tully, Mission Beach and Innisfail
Optional activity: Johnstone River Crocodile Farm
Basic Driver Guide Kit
To kit yourself out, here are a few essential things you will be required to obtain before commencing employment:
• Small First Aid kit
• Hands-free microphone
• Ipod or similar
• Covered shoes
• Toolbox (we can advise on appropriate tools)
• Assorted useful reference books