A WOMAN who lived on a "heavenly" island off the coast of Australia for free only worked 24 hours a week. Sirirat Nensewicz, 27, from Germany , lived on the 18-acre Pumpkin Island in the Great Barrier Reef where she didn't have to pay rent. 9 Sirirat Nensewicz, 27, was desperate to find work so she could stay in Australia longer Credit: SWNS 9 Sirirat enjoyed spending time in a hammock on the Aussie island Credit: SWNS 9 Pumpkin Island is in the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Queensland Credit: SWNS 9 The content creator worked just 24 hours a week across five days - cleaning, gardening and bartending at a local resort in return for free housing after finding it on Google Maps.
Sirirat said she enjoyed her time off "laying in a hammock and swimming " on the island which boasts pristine beaches and exotic marine wildlife. Her monthly expenses came to just £200 (AUD $400) and the resort paid her around £800 (AUD $1,600) on top of this. She said: "We would get up around 8am, check the common areas and clean the bathrooms, do some gardening and then the 'sunset happy hours' - two hours of bar work in the evening.
"Some days we would work 10 hour shifts, some would only be four." She added: "Most of my time on the island, I would just relax, lay in the hammock, swim and kayak. "For the first week, I went snorkelling every day after work in the Southern Great Barrier Reef and managed to watch a lot of Netflix .
" Sirirat's accommodation was "a small room with a double bed and.