Clearing continues

Today I cleared the flat section on the eastern beach. It was a mix of some sort of stalky grass and weeds so I hope the grass will become tame. It will make a nice spot for a picnic table. A year or so ago when we were scoping out the block I planted papaya seeds all over the place just in case we came here. The spindly papaya you can see are probably those but they are not doing very well, and I haven't found any others that survived unattended.

Other than that, clearing of the house site goes on. It's just a daily job of cutting a tree or two down, chopping them up into firewood sized chunks so it will burn green and burning it for a couple of days. About one more week, maybe two and we should be ready to start digging holes for the corner poles.

 

The guttering finally arrived so we put that up but there were no joiners and nobody had thought to order any so it will be a few months before we can get one of those. In the meantime duct tape will have to do.  It looks like we might get some rain on Saturday so we've just rigged up a hoki downpipe for now so at least we can get some water (there are always plenty of bottles washing up on the beach because rubbish bins are not customary tools here). We might get a fresh water shower this weekend, all being well!