Something for the weekend: Australia-based Tourism Tasmania has opened applications for off-season ‘winternships’, which include a variety of unusual roles.
The winternships will see 10 Australians undertake Tasmanian internship experiences, which have been designed for them to learn how to become winter people from Tasmanian winter experts and embrace the season to the fullest.
Each experience will equip participants with specific skills, such as keeping a floating sauna toasty as a sauna skipper at Kuuma Nature Sauna, putting on a mini music festival and keeping mini goats on their best behaviour as a goat doofer at Hideaway Farmlet, and looking after Tasmanian devils as a devil sitter at Devils@Cradle.
Additional roles available are a tunnel-to-table taster to grow, pick and prepare mushrooms cultivated inside an old railway tunnel at Tunnel Hill Mushrooms, a calf concierge to help calves be born, and bottle-feed and keep warm lambs at Borradale Stanley, and a trail trialler to spend two days off-road and off-grid around bike trails in Derby for Blue Derby Pods Ride.
Other roles include barrel butler at McHenry Distillery, fragrance forager at Undersong Perfumery, splinter specialist at Huon Pine Shop and Creative Paper Tasmania, and scenic seat-warmer at Gorge Scenic Chairlift.
Tourism Tasmania will accept applications until 17 June via the Discover Tasmania website. Applicants must explain in 50 words or less why they want to become a winter person through the winternship. Those who are successful will have their travel covered and will receive a selection of seasonal Tasmanian produce.
Sarah Clark, chief executive officer of Tourism Tasmania, said: “Tasmanians are winter people at heart, so we don’t just endure winter, we celebrate it. We’re inviting winterns to dive head-first into our winter culture that’s probably a bit different to their home. There’s something for everyone in Tasmania this off-season. We guarantee you’ll head home with some different skills and most importantly, a new take on winter.”
Sounds like a great range of roles to us, and we bet the perks are good too!
