Work and Play

Hi everyone, I'm a Carpenter by trade and currently sub contract to builders and when possible my own work. I currently have a land cruiser ute, I've been working on to do a touring trip from. What im looking at doing is putting on a alloy canopy for camping(holidays part of the trip) and towing my tool trailer (working part of trip ) and head to alice springs from there and head up to Darwin and eventually get to cape York before the wet season hits . im looking at heading west in late January 2014. ill be dropping off my trailer in cairns before i go to cape

Question, how hard is it to find work out in remote places as a tradie? I find the more west you go the less information is available on the internet.
Is accommodation hard to find, and what's a rough price, id be looking at a weekly rental? for a short stay and a month if the work is there.

Would it be a reasonable assumption to assume if i worked half the trip it would pay for the holiday half?

Would love to hear any feed back big or small, especially from any tradie in construction!!

Thanks