Ditch

On Thursday 16th August the team started on the ditch that runs along two sides of our property. All the streets in Surabaya have concrete lined ditches on either side waiting for the rainy season. On this site we have to dig out an existing ditch and face it to hold our land up and in. Once the ditches are lined we have to build bridges across so we can enter and leave the house by foot and by car.









This is a general view of the area where they were working. Then a close up of the team digging in the ditch.





Then they had to bail the water out. Bucket after bucket of water thrown over the makeshift dam. As they worked they found scores of fish. Here is one bucketful. We liberated a few and brought them home to put in our existing pond.