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Vineyards, hospo and a proper beach town — Margaret River is one of the few WA spots where you can work vintage and still have somewhere good to go after the shift.

Carnarvon grows bananas, vegetables, melons and tropical fruit on WA’s Coral Coast — but don’t arrive hoping for a job. Here’s the practical backpacker guide.

Most backpackers drive straight through Geraldton on the way north to the Coral Coast. That's a mistake. The city has year-round 88-day eligible farm work, a genuine surf scene, some of the best lobster in the country and living costs that feel almost reasonable.

Bundaberg tomatoes, Bowen mangoes, Atherton fruit — Queensland is where most backpackers actually finish their 88 days. Here’s where to go, when harvests hit, and what the work is really like.

88 days is not a vibe — it’s payslips, the right postcode and the right kind of work. Here’s how people actually finish it without wasting a season.

The world's largest sand island, a freshwater lake of impossible blue, dingoes on the beach at dusk. Fraser Island earns every word of its reputation — here's how to see it on a backpacker budget after your 88 days.