After staying at Rob’s folks place the night before we check out the trees at the Journey.  They are all ok!

We give them a good drink before checking out the bore.  Rob’s dad thinks he saw where the poly pipe ended the other day (on the other side of the triangle paddock) when he was watering trees so we want to see if he is right.  I went to the end of the poly pipe with Rob’s dad and Rob went to the bore.  We used our mobile phones so we could tell each other what was happening.

Rob turned it on and nothing happened. We waited, still nothing.  A little while later there were some gurgles - then farty noises - the poly pipe starts to move - then - we have water!  It’s gushing out making mud (a sight that hasn’t been seen in this area for a while) and we fill up all the containers again.  We decide to give it a taste - it’s drinkable!

All the trees get another drink then Rob and his dad put up the weed mat on the toilet.

We head home very happy.

The forecast said it would be 40 degrees today so we got up early to try and beat the heat and dig the holes for the toilet and the four trees.  Rob was using the mattock to break up the earth and I was shovelling the dirt and rocks (there were quite a few) out of the holes.  Rob desperately wanted a cup of tea so we managed to get all the holes dug and be on the road to Rob’s parents by 9am.

Even though men have no shame and Rob would have been quite happy to use a toilet with anybody able to see, I insisted on having a little bit of privacy.  Rob and his Pa came up with the idea of welding droppers together (so they were double the height) to put around the toilet in the shape of a snail. 

We went back to the Journey with the droppers and they were hammered into the ground for weed mat to be wired into place.  Everyone had had enough for the day so we decided to leave that for another day but the result will be a very crude but functional toilet with enough privacy to keep me happy.

Using organic potting mix, we planted the four citrus trees using pea straw for mulch.  We watered the trees with water from Rob’s parents, wished them well and hoped they survived after we headed back to Adelaide.  Rob’s dad said he would water them for us every few days.

Rob and Raph spent a 38 degree day paving 35 square metres for the pergola to help sell the house at Para Hills.  They then went and bought four trees, a Mandarin Emperor, a Lemon Lisbon, a Washington Navel Orange and a Seedless Valencia Orange (two types of oranges as they are meant to produce fruit at different times of the year).

After this exhausting day, Rob picked me up and we drove to Clare in the “Goon-Mobile” with a car full of citrus trees and no air-conditioning.  We pitched the tent on the property while it was still light, put the swag inside and headed off to Rob’s folks place for dinner.

In their shed we constructed a toilet from a pallet, a milk crate and a toilet seat.  A hole was cut into the pallet and the bottom of the milk crate then everything was zip tied together.  We decided to use a pallet so that we could dig a wider hole making it a lot easier.  We put our newly constructed toilet in the trailer then after dinner we headed for our first night at the Journey.

We had a drink to celebrate then I made Rob hide in the tent while I went to have a pee over (what we now call) “the toilet log” as the hole for the toilet had not been dug yet. 
Then off to bed (or should I say swag).