Whereabouts are you Mike? Somewhere down around the Gold Coast I reckon?
I kept going till I got to Mackay, then after a few months up to Townsville. Loved it but no road driving jobs, all the distance drivers were O/Ds, did a bit of cane cutting, internal driving in a sugar mill, road rolling in Sarina, then on the beach studying the horses fulltime in Townsville. Lovely, sunny, lazy days.
Keep it coming, brings back happy memories.