limited to the East coast. Also you are right that you can easily find jobs as a carpenter. Mining work is mostly in Western Australia und Queensland, but I don't really know anything about that. Regarding your travel plans: Wet Season up North is roughly til May. That means if you are driving yourself you might run into trouble between Broome and the Northern Territory Border because early in the dry season just means the rain has stopped but the water has not subsided yet. Also keep in mind that it can still be rainy, very humid and super hot. If you can handle that, you shouldn't have a problem, if not try to come up here about June/July. The rest of your travel plan sounds just fine. Traveling up the west coast is not a problem, just a long way to drive at times (but then again, that's true for most of Australia ). Staying around Port Hedland is quite difficult because of the overpriced hotels/caravan parks/everything, but there are free roadside places you can sleep at if you don't mind that. And one last thing to keep in mind if you should be traveling by car: 1st Kangaroos really go crazy up north after dusk. Unless you have a roobar on your car and don't mind hitting a few of them, just don't drive in the dark. 2nd petrol prices can be a lot higher in the north of Western Australia and the Northern Territory (apart from Darwin).