The man who in 2009 beat out 35,000 applicants for what was touted as the “best job in the world” — caretaker of Australia’s Hamilton Island — got more than he bargained for, including amazing adventures, a brush with a deadly creature, while he lost and gained a girlfriend — who is now his fiancée.Ben Southall, 37, won the highly sought-after job of caretaker of the idyllic Hamilton Island on the Australia’s Great Barrier Reef with its $150,000 salary and housing at a luxury villa. “At the time I saw the advert, I thought it would be like living on a desert island like Tom Hanks in ‘Castaway’,” Southall told the BBC. “It became bigger the further it went on. It was after I won when I did a 10-minute slot on the ‘Oprah Winfrey Show’ which was broadcast in 140 countries that I thought, ‘this is pretty big now.’” Southall, who previously worked as a charity fund-raiser, moved to the island with his then-girlfriend Breanna Watkins in 2009. Over the next three yea...