12 Flaggy Rock; Taming the Jungle Week 7

It's Sunday 22nd April and the sunrises are spectacular most mornings recently. As we arrive at our gate we look directly East and it's a beautiful way to start the day....


Over the weekend we had a person reverse into our car at the caravan park while we were having dinner. As they say a new car doesn't stay new for long and seems to be an attraction to somehow have damage done to it.....




We have contractors and also council people working on Douglas Road. We are having so many deliveries soon that we rang and asked for work to be done. Well what a response with in one day you say. Lucky for us the money is free or maybe it has something to do with elections soon but they are doing all the roads in the district now.


One of the five drains put in to help our 750 metres of gravel road drain better......


Today we had planned to go fishing but both of us had other things on our mind this morning and forgot to buy bait. However it is early and we pack up Chucky and head to the beach front. Low tide at the moment but excellent to get around the foreshore. This is looking west back up the entrance of Flaggy Rock Creek....



The foreshore of our property about 1 km....


An old car John remembers used to be in the bush but is now part of the ocean bed....





The entrance of Stockyard Creek which forms the southern boundary of our land.....


This is looking back from the southern tip of beach front nick named Nevie's Point.......


A good fishing spot in Stockyard Creek.Notice that this tree is not going down without a fight there can't be much holding it onto the bank.....



View West towards the mountains....


And people wonder why we want to keep them out!!!!!!!





Water pump is now installed a hose to work with.....



After our trip to the beach and exploring for the morning Jenelle gives Chucky his first wash......



Back into the building process and we are very excited about creating a corner inside. For neatness we are bending the iron around the corners. Of course this has an added challenge because none of the former posts or rooms are square.....


Our kitchen window looks like a painting.....



Jenelle working with a Reciprocating saw and cutting down some creeper grown over the Pride of India trees struggling to survive. Jenelle wants the Pride of India back so she works on this while John is doing metal work....



One of the welcomed visitors......




All the rubbish cut down and burnt we are preparing the site for some deliveries this week....



Little by little.....



One and a half rooms.....



Our bathroom window.....



Preparation begins for the poring of our the rest of the slab for the Studio. It takes us a couple of days to think this through and make sure we have it ready for Thursday. Now lets hope the weather holds as this will be the biggest truck we have on our place so far....

11 Flaggy Rock; Taming the Jungle Week 6

We have arrived back to the block from a very quick trip to Brisbane for a family wedding. While we were away it was a concern as to what we might come back and see here. Because of the amount of road works on the highway we encountered on the way down we decided to leave on the Sunday afternoon to make the trip home.
It was a smooth trip taking turns in driving with no road works in progress and we arrived at the farm around 3am on Monday morning. Waiting in the car until day break we then set up our sleeping tent for the first time. Made our bed and had a very comfortable sleep for an hour or so to refresh ourselves.....








On Tuesday we have a local man we have been talking with bring us some more rock so later in the week he will come back and top dress our road to finish the building process of the road to the sheds for us....



Jenelle has tried to add a bit of colour to her life and sprayed her hat pink....not quite Melbourne Cup standard but colourful all the same......



The rock foundation being spread.........





Since  returning we have changed tacts on the building process and taken down what we had already accomplished to do a new improved style that should make the sheeting of walls with iron much easier.....


With the luxuries of a few things from our storage shed in Brisbane we can now make breakfast at the farm. Jenelle working here on a new style of table top......



This is the timber frame for our first window. The building process is not your normal one as we are having iron on the inside walls and then the outside as well. Our plans are to have the new silver iron inside and make the outside look like an old shed with the old iron back on. Jenelle has found a way of making iron look old and giving it a rust patina if we need anymore of that around here....








The best part of this week was the arrival of our Polaris. Now named Chucky. Chucky is the best thing since sliced bread as far as we are concerned. We now have a way or getting around our block and not on foot anymore. Chucky finally arrived late last night in the dark in time for us to test drive about 20 metres to then lock up in the container.....













On of the first jobs for Chucky was to save our legs and move this rubbish from one place to another......







Later in the week we have the top dressing which is what is dug out of our roads when the council is digging up the bitumen. A mixture of small gravel soil and broken bits of bitumen. Ken our road builder has bought three loads of this in his truck before it takes him about 30 minutes and we have a weather proof road to our sheds.....





At the moment our road is smoother than Douglas Road the council road.......



Each week for us is a new discovery as we take the grass back further and further. Our first burn of part of the bank beside the sheds may not look much but to us we are really enjoying opening up the ground close to where we will live. Burning is the only way we can have clear ground as we don't need mulch here for many reasons....

10 Flaggy Rock; Taming the Jungle Week5

At the start of week five the Easter break is almost finished. Pearce and John do a full days work leaving Jenelle to have a day off and catch up on administration. They complete the screwing on of the roof together...


The pile of remaining mango tree has been reduced to this over night. Now re-stacked to try and reduce again throughout the day...


Pearce ready for a climb on the roof......


By the time the men left in the afternoon the mango tree now looks like this....


While John was busy elsewhere Pearce took the brushcutter to this area at the back of the main shed and cut it down and then burnt it again for us. Finally it gives us a clean area here....


Tuesday was a half day as Pearce fly's back to Brisbane tonight and we take him to Mackay this afternoon. In the morning John and Pearce take off a roof of one shed to open it up for us.....


Wednesday John and I are preparing the site for our tank to sit. First the pad is made level....


Then John puts up a new gutter on the large old shed......



Down pipe in place......



The mango tree is reduced to this now.....


Finally tank in place.....


Lets hope some of these clouds will fill the tank or at least put some water in it for us....