Painted jetty

Handrails complete, and first coat of paint on the jetty.

Fruit trees and driveway

Six fruit trees: Granny Smith apple, Sundowner apple, nectarine, Imperial madarine, Valencia orange and Tahatian lime.

The driveway to the house has been dug out to hold old bricks and rocks from demolition sites; this will be a good base for the limestone.

Progress on jetty

The jetty is almost finished. About 2 metres wide, and 6 metres long. 2 metres from the bottom of the dam to the deck.

A ladder is going to go on the left, and railings have to be fitted.

Pole to support the outlet of the fountain, and measure the depth.

Fruit trees and jetty

Four fruit trees planted - apple, nectarine, mandarine and orange.

John, from down the road, came on Saturday to rip the soil and mound it for the trees that will be planted next month. One more row around the property and two rows across about 1/3rd and 2/3rds down. He did the job in about an hour.

All the fill was spread last Tuesday by Len.
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The jetty takes shape

23 semi-loads of fill ready to spread out.

More work on the dam

A bit dark, but you can see the semi-loads of soil brought in Friday and Saturday. 4 or 5 more arrving today (Monday). Will cover the area by about 100mm.

A start to the jetty.
Two 100x100mm poles, with another two going half way up (holes already there), and two at the top. Total length will be about 6 metres, and 2 metres wide.

Dam completed

Dam digging completed - just the dirt to spread out now.
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Digging the dam

6.45am - just light. Mounds of dirt from the new hole in the ground. It will be spread out by a bulldozer in a couple of weeks to a depth of 200mm, and then a 100m layer of sandy fill will go over the top of that.

Standing on the excavator. The hole is about 2m deep, and at this stage about 15 x 15 metres. The sides will be at 30 degrees, and the final size will be about 20 x 28 metres.
Could not go much deeper than 2m because the water table is just below that, and it's very salty water.

Excavator

Rusty's excavator waiting to start on Tuesday Wednesday.

Point Peron lookout

WWII lookout

Bike

Views from Point Peron

A secluded cove.

The peninsula.

Canoes in Shoalwater.

Shoalwater

Paint on the pergola

Update on trees

The trees are doing much better now.

Visitors

A flock of 25 geese came visiting from a palce about 1km away.

New construction

Built on Friday and Saturday, with the help of Ron.

New Shelf

Made and installed a shelf for the food above the kichen cupboards.

Trees

The trees around the block are growing, although just less than half of the 600 planted survived.



The tallest of all the trees - it's about 450mm high.

In and around the shed

I've organised things inside the shed somewhat. A shelf for over the kitchen bench is being painted (to the left, white, sitting on milk crates). Click on the pic for a better view (as you can do for all pics).


Paving completed - goes half way down the front of the shed now as well.


A shelter to secure the water pump completed. A soil has been put in the 'garden beds'.


View of the shed and tank from towards the back of the block. Phil and Janet's shed in the background.


View in the other direction of the earthmoving equipment working way down the back.

New Shelf

Built a new shelf for the timber on Friday evening.