More machinery.

We were right about the steam roller, except it wasn't a steam one, more than likely a diesel roller!  

First up on Friday was a  tractor pulling a water bowser.  They were used a lot when the road  was built between Yator and Cadiar,  the bowser sprays water onto the surface ready for the roller to pack it down.   The driver adjusted the spray from a fine spray to what seemed to be a drenching.  The road surface looked very soggy but after the roller had been up and down a few times it was solid again.  They repeated this on Saturday morning.

Then this morning the road grader reappeared, stopped at the end of the new road and waited for a while until a truck appeared.  The big Cat has made a large area below Cortijo la Loma, which is about 500 metres away on the way to Yator.  The trucks have enough space there to park, wait and turn around.  But from there to us is uphill and there are  also about 6 curves in the track.  The trucks came from there in reverse to dump their loads of gravel before driving down for a refill.  There were 3 trucks altogether coming and going all day, with the grader levelling out the gravel behind them.  It looks quite a thick layer of gravel that's been laid.

By the end of tomorrow, they should have finished.   And then - well, we'll have to  wait and see what comes next.