Mud, sandflies and more mud

Yesterday we spent the day trying to clean up the pistol club.  It has been almost six months since the flood came through and damaged our club but the amount of water still around is amazing! The first most pressing thing to do is repair our fence line.  Parts of it are still underwater and other parts have had the fence completely washed away! We needed big machinery in there to remove the debris and cut a trail through. BUT working in an area that has been underwater has its downfalls......

My friend Oscar and I crawling around in the mud trying to unbog the truck

with pieces of carpet we ripped up from the damaged clubhouse 

Our grand work plans became side tracked when we all had to spend two and a half hours unbogging the crane... And then another hour unbogging the dozer!

 This is the entry gate to our club.

Me, Justin and other members digging in the mud.

 Finally!

Amazing but true - five months on and after a summer of months worth of temperatures above 38C/100F the ground is still too wet!

The dozer (successfully unbogged!) clearing parts of a damaged range wall.

A late lunch of sausages and onions on the BBQ wrapped in slices of white bread with tomato sauce cooked by mom and I and it was back to it.  This photo below is our club's kitchen (and where mom & I cooked lunch).  You can still see the water mark about a foot up the bench.

And our bar area - showing the water mark.  This is on the opposite side of our clubhouse - so the entire clubhouse was a foot under water!

Although the day was sidetracked by bogged vehicles and there were sandflies, mud and gross things to clean up, it felt good to be finally moving forward.  Here's to being a functional pistol club again in the not too distant future!