Watering Wednesday.

Wednesday and watering day for the new road!

We couldn't hear any noise during the morning on Wednesday and having an hour or so to spare before lunch, thought we'd take the dogs out for a  walk down to Yator.  It's a long walk for them because they run backwards and forwards and go about 3 or 4 times as far as we do.  We dropped in on some friends for a coffee and a chat and left about an hour later to head back up the hill and home for lunch.

As we reached the cemetery, the water bowser lorry was coming down and  spraying as he went.  He turned round and set off back up followed by us - still spraying water and with us trying not to get our feet too wet.  Following behind us was the road grader spreading the gravel more evenly and then behind him came the road roller packing it all down.  The roller spent all afternoon going backwards and forwards, it also has some sort of vibrating mechanism to pack it down more solidly.

We had a chat with the driver of the water bowser,  he said it holds about 10,000 litres of water.  He also said  that when they start laying the concrete, it will take about a week to 10 days and obviously many, many lorry loads!