Broken ground

Today we dropped the last of the large trees that would pose a risk to the hut (except for a couple of smallish coconut trees)

 

We also pegged out the hut corners and broke ground on the first of the pole foundations

 

We hit old coral rock at 950mm, which is fine because I only wanted the holes to be 900mm. However, this hole was the farthest from the waterfront so we might not make the full 900 on the closer ones. The holes are 400mm wide and the poles are 200mm wide. It was fairly easy digging in gluggy red clay.