OK, I am writing this on Monday night at 8:30pm.
Today has been quite an eventful one for the roadworks. I’ll let the photos below tell the story.
They have made a fair bit of progress on the stretch of road outside our place. For a start the level of the road has risen quite a lot and the edge (the bit that the two trees are on) has been cleared of all the logs, grass and bushes.
Further down the road the excavator has been busy at the bridge, especially at a section snug to the concrete. See the photo below.
This is the section that the excavator has been digging away at today. My dad pointed out that the foundation of the bridge appears to be an old causeway, complete with a pipe in the middle of it. Our neighbour helped to build this bridge, so I will ask him whether this is correct or not.
The orange excavator that can be seen in the distance (and also on my photoblog) dug all of this trench up to about where it is parked. At the end of this trench there is an access for trucks, and on the other side of that is another trench that is a bit wider than this one.
On Friday night we had quite a big lightning storm. One flash was so close to us (about 1/2 a kilometre) that the line of lightning appeared to be made up of sparklers (those little party things).
I accidently shot a few photos while everything was lit up, and you can see those below. Unfortunately my camera (or my reflexes) aren’t good enough to take photos of the actual lightning.
This photo shows how dark the storm clouds were (it was still quite light when they rolled in)
One of my accidental shots in the middle of a lightning strike: this tree was about 300 metres away from where I was taking photos.
Another accidental shot during a lightning strike.
After writing Friday’s update, I was especially interested in what the roadworkers were going to do with the big trench that they had dug. Yesterday (Monday) I got the chance to see. You can have that chance to by moving your eyes down a little to the photo section 
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This photo is looking from the opposite end of the trench from the photo at the top of the last post. The trucks bring in the dirt and the excavator spreads it out (quite obviously).
This is a closeup of the two machines. In the background you can see the plastic that they layed before piling on the dirt.
This is just across the road from where the previous photos were taken. This drain was put in about 4 months ago and has just been sitting there. Now they’ve piled up dirt on one side in preparation for the road going over the top of it.
I apologise if you’re sick of all the posts about roadworks, because this is yet another.
Last Friday morning (5th October), I decided to go for a bike ride to see what had been happening with the roadworks. I hadn’t had a chance to do it for a few days because the roadworks start at about 6:30 AM and finish at about 5 PM. The roadworks weren’t happening on this particular Friday because I think that every fortnight they get a weekday off work.
You can see and read about what I did by looking at the pictures and their captions below.
First of all I went across the road to find out why trucks were being filled up with dirt by the excavators. This is the reason: they had dug out a big drench in preparation for laying down the stuff that they put underneath a road (I think). As you can see, the underground water level is still quite high.
I then went across to an excavator that had been left there. This photo gives you an idea of how big the scoop was.
Coming a bit further on, I was able to get a look at the temporary road that had been tarred so that they could work unhindered on the old road (soon to be made new).
I then rode a fair way on down to the bridge. This photo shows that they have made an attempt at damming up the creek.
Further up from the bridge I came across the small hill that they had been digging lots of clay and dirt from. The dirt is then carted down to around our place and used to fill in the big trench they’ve dug (see the photo at the top). You can see how much dirt had been excavated: The sides are roughly 3 times my height!
Riding back down from the hill I stopped to snap this picture of the big piles of dirt just above the creek.
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