Backpacking In Australia🇦🇺: The Singing🎶🎤Toilet 🚽💩At Coles Beach, Devonport, Tasmania

“Sing a sad song in a lonely place, and try to put a word in for me” – Noel Gallagher.

Back in 2010, I spent just short of 6 months living and working in Tasmania. It was a totally magical time of my life! In that time, I worked with a Devonport based agricultural company called Work Direct and I teamed up with Joe Cook Ag too. It was 6 months of bliss working on over 40 different farms. I had some great bosses in that job – Hayley Becker, Diane Doherty and Rebecca Gaby.

Rebecca remains one of the best managers I ever had. If you worked hard for her, she respected you and gave you loads more work. This was how I lived my backpacking dreams back in 2009 – 2011. At one point, working under Rebecca I worked 12 hours a day, 7 days a week in farms in central Tasmania. It was pure bliss.

When Rebecca upped my wages slightly and promoted me to working on the world’s first broccoli harvesting machine, it was a dream job. I slept in my tent, didn’t spend much money at all, didn’t drink alcohol or socialise. It was just work and sleep. I camped in Poatina.

One day around April/May 2010, when I checked my bank account, I suddenly had over $5,000 AUD as I was earning $1,200+ most weeks back then! It was good money in those days. For the first time in my life, I hd lots of money and I could start to plan some real backpacking.

By the end of May 2010, broccoli season had ended and I decided to move back north to Devonport but I didn’t want to pay for accommodation as I had also converted my car into a bed. Pierre, who worked with me on broccoli farms also moved north the same time, and each night, we decided to park our cars up in Coles Beach and sleep there each night. By now, we had both moved onto cauliflower harvesting and I had also a few shifts on cabbage, beans, echinacea and pyrethrum. In short, if you proved you could work hard, you would earn between 100 – 200 AUD a day easily. Below, a few photos from Coles Beach and hanging out with Pierre. Pierre, from southern France, and I were good backpacking friends for about 5 weeks or so. Of an evening we’d chill out watching some DVDs on our laptops and in fact only once did we drink alcohol together – on his last night. I stayed a few weeks longer in Tasmania.

This is how I lived for over a month – sleeping in my car – driving to a farm to work then coming back to this car park at dusk. There was  shower and a toilet there – a SINGING TOILET and a TWO minute shower! The water was only hot for 2 minutes.

In that car park, I made a video of the singing musical toilet but not of the 2 minute shower.

Here is a video I made of the Singing Musical Toilet at Coles Beach, Devonport, Tasmania, Australia: