It's only a little rain

After considering the program last week we decided that it was necessary to get four more vehicles (on top of 12 already here) if we are to have any chance of finishing the project in October. These extra vehicles would be particularly helpful if the dry weather stuck around. As Murphy would have it, the day after the extra vehicles started on site the rain came (today). So this morning was an adventure in wet weather driving (see videos attached – one of the 4WD’s trying to come up the hill on some very slippery clay and getting one of the Mitsubishi L300 Pickups back onto the road). It is a mixed feeling knowing that the weather has such a strong bearing on how the project will go, on one hand it is an excuse for being slow, on the other it is something that even the most meticulous planning cannot eliminate. Having arrived when 4km were done we now have about 7km complete of the 13km . . .