Day 785

Day 785: Tide, Rot, and Red Line

Dawn found Kevin at the south piling, flashlight on the bolted sister. "South piling's solid. Bolt didn't walk," he said. Jenny watched from a dock plank, ankle propped on a driftwood splint. "The wood is holding. It's the current I worry about." Scour at the toe needed riprap before the next spring cycles undercut the brace. They agreed to move north ridge rocks at tomorrow's low tide — four hours. "I'll move them. You place." Three pH strips remained; she'd save them for the garden wall. Coffee on the shelf. She wasn't hungry. "Tin E isn't going anywhere. Neither are the seeds."

Midday heat, 25°C, barometer steady at 996 hPa. Kevin inspected the north piling shims — rot advanced three millimetres since last week. Greenheart sister planks and stainless through-bolts staged on the dock for tomorrow's low-tide repair. "Saw the rot line on the seaward face. Three millimetres since last week. Greenheart sisters are staged — need to drive them at low water tomorrow." Jenny sketched the sea cave stratification: laminated silt over blue clay with iron bands at 40 cm and 1.2 m depth, no active seepage. She returned to debride her ankle and apply a fresh sea beet and mint poultice.

Afternoon on the porch with limpet broth and the shortwave. Only a news broadcast about Chinese military politics. Tide rose steadily. At the shrine, dusk settling, Kevin cleaned the wound with saline, flushed the old poultice, applied fresh mash of sea beet, garlic, and honey. The red line had advanced past the morning pen mark. "Line's at the mid-calf. I'm marking it again. If it moves past the knee, we radio the medevac." Back on the porch, first heavy drops falling. Kevin gave prescribed antibiotics, reapplied sea beet and mint poultice. Jenny took the pills, drank the broth. He re-wrapped the wound. Rain tank gained 25 litres overnight.

Scenes

the dock · dawn

Morning High Tide Inspection

Kevin stands by the newly sistered south piling, checking the bolt tension with a flashlight. Jenny sits on a nearby dock plank, her ankle propped on a driftwood splint while she watches the tide come in.

The air is heavy and still as the tide sits high against the dock. Kevin inspects the structural integrity of the mooring pilings while Jenny manages the heirloom seeds and prepares a morning meal.

🔧 Kevin05:48

South piling's solid. Bolt didn't walk.

shine the flashlight beam along the greenheart sister plates, checking for any gap or movement at the bolt heads

💭 thought

The sister brace held. Greenheart plates and that 150mm through-bolt — torque held at 35Nm even with the tide pushing. Jenny's watching me check it like she's cataloguing something. Her ankle's propped, swelling down from yesterday but the red line's still tracking. She didn't wake me at 0400. First time in weeks.

🌿 Jenny05:49

The wood is holding. It's the current I worry about.

Tightens the wrap on her ankle, wincing slightly, and pulls her notebook out to sketch the rot pattern on the tide line.

💭 thought

He thinks the wood is the problem, but the salt is eating the iron from the inside out.

🔧 Kevin05:50

Scour at the toe. Need riprap or sheeting at the base. Got maybe two spring cycles before it undercuts the brace.

crouch at the water's edge, running a hand along the piling below the sister brace where the current bites, feeling for softened wood

💭 thought

She's right. Current's eating the toe of the piling where the sister brace doesn't reach. Scour. Seen it take sound timber in a season. Need to drive sheeting or dump riprap at the base before the next spring tide cycle. She's sketching the rot line — pencil moving careful, like she's mapping a fracture.

🌿 Jenny05:51

Then we need to move the rocks from the north ridge before the next big swell.

Marks the tide line in her sketch with a pencil, her eyes fixed on the grey water meeting the wood.

💭 thought

Two cycles isn't enough time for the soil to settle, let alone the seeds.

🔧 Kevin05:52

Low tide tomorrow. Four hours. I'll move them. You place.

straighten, wiping wet fingers on trousers, and glance at the north ridge silhouette against the lightening sky

💭 thought

North ridge rocks — the cribbing stone we hauled for the drainage bed. Heavy, flat-faced greenheart. Would take the wheelbarrow, two trips minimum. Low tide tomorrow 1240 gives us four hours of access. Her ankle won't take the load. I'll run the barrow. She can direct placement from the dock.

🌿 Jenny05:53

I'll prep the pH tests for that area then. We need it to be right.

Closes her notebook with a sharp snap, the throbbing in her ankle matching the rhythm of the rising tide.

💭 thought

If he moves the rocks, I can finally stabilize that southern bank without the current taking the work away.

🔧 Kevin05:54

Three strips left. Don't waste one on the riprap. It's clean stone.

turn toward the cottage, the flashlight beam cutting across the dock planks as the tide laps higher

💭 thought

pH tests for the riprap bed. She's thinking ahead — salt leaching into the garden beds behind the dock if the stone sits wrong. Three strips left in the kit. One for the spring, one for the garden wall seep. One spare. She's rationing them in her head already.

🌿 Jenny05:55

I'll save the twine for the garden wall instead. Maybe.

Stands up slowly, shifting her weight to avoid the sharpest pain in her ankle, and follows him toward the cottage.

💭 thought

He's right about the stone, but he doesn't see how fast the sand is shifting under it.

🔧 Kevin05:56

Twine's for the wall. I'll splice new stern line for the dinghy if we need more.

walk up the path to the cottage, slowing his stride so she doesn't have to hurry

💭 thought

Twine for the garden wall lashings. The shade cloth anchors shredded last storm — coconut crab got the oak stakes. She's saving the last roll of heavy twine for that. Smart. The garden wall's the only thing keeping salt off the tomato rows. Her ankle's bad but she's walking. Stubborn.

🌿 Jenny05:57

The dinghy can wait for now. I need that wall to hold.

Steps onto the grass, wincing as the damp earth presses her ankle, and eyes the half-weeded garden behind the cottage.

💭 thought

He's always thinking about the boat and the gear, while the island is literally dissolving itself.

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the keeper's cottage · morning

Morning Meal

They meet at the cottage as the sun struggles through the grey haze. The smell of boiled limpets fills the small room.

The morning air is heavy and still at 25°C as the dry season lingers. The tide is receding, exposing the slick rocks of the tide pools, while the barometer shows a steady rise to 996 hPa, suggesting the dry weather will hold before the supply boat arrives.

🔧 Kevin05:58

Coffee's on. Mug on the shelf.

ladle limpets from the pot into a tin bowl, set it on the table alongside the mug

💭 thought

The limpets are rubbery but hot. The grey light makes the cottage feel smaller. She's moving slower than yesterday — ankle still weighs on her.

🌿 Jenny05:59

Thanks.

Winces as she shifts weight off her left foot, reaching for the mug with a shaky hand.

💭 thought

My ankle is throbbing in time with the pulse, and I can't even look at the seeds without feeling the weight of them under my skin.

🔧 Kevin06:00

Eat first. Then I'll look at it.

sit opposite her with my own bowl, cracking a limpet shell with the spoon

💭 thought

The shake isn't from cold. Antibiotics should've steadied her by now. Need to check the wound again after breakfast.

🌿 Jenny06:01

I'm not really hungry.

Takes a small, reluctant bite of the limpet, eyes fixed on the tin of seeds on the table.

💭 thought

He thinks a quick look will fix weeks of炎症, but the rot is already too deep in the bone.

🔧 Kevin06:02

Tin E isn't going anywhere. Neither are the seeds.

pry another limpet free, chew slowly, watch her fingers on the mug

💭 thought

She's fixating on the tin. The rusted one marked E. Hasn't touched it since the crate. Won't until I do.

🌿 Jenny06:03

I know.

Takes a sip of the bitter coffee, the heat radiating through her palm as she avoids touching the swelling on her ankle.

💭 thought

He talks like they're anchored, but I'm the one who has to watch them for rot in the damp.

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the tide pools · midday

Midday at the pools

The tide is at its lowest, revealing limpets and small crabs, but the air remains heavy and still.

Kevin inspected the north piling shims and confirmed the rot has advanced three millimetres since last week, then staged the greenheart sister planks and stainless through-bolts on the dock for tomorrow's low-tide repair. Jenny sketched the sea cave stratification on the northern tide pool shelf, noting laminated silt over blue clay with iron bands at 40 cm and 1.2 m depth, then returned to the cottage to debride her ankle and apply a fresh sea beet and mint poultice.

🔧 Kevin06:04

Kevin — walk to the dock and inspect the north piling shims at waterline

💭 thought

Good. Low tide gives me a clear look at the north piling shims without fighting the water. The barometer holding steady at 996 means the window's open for real work today.

🌿 Jenny06:05

The shims are rotting, Kevin. They won't hold the next big surge.

Squat on the flat rock, wincing as the ankle shifts, and begin sketching the stratification of the sea cave walls.

💭 thought

He's looking at the wood again while the salt is eating the soul of the whole island.

🔧 Kevin06:06

Saw the rot line on the seaward face. Three millimetres since last week. Greenheart sisters are staged — need to drive them at low water tomorrow.

crouch beside the north piling, probe the shim gaps with a knife blade, and check the oak wedge seating

💭 thought

She's not wrong. The cedar's been breathing salt and surge for months. Oak wedges are holding the ring for now but the piling itself is softening. Need greenheart sisters on both faces before the next spring tide.

🌿 Jenny06:07

If we don't use the greenheart now, the salt will Take the whole frame before the boat even arrives.

Sharpen a pencil and draw a precise line for the silt layers in the notebook, ignoring the throb in my ankle.

💭 thought

Three millimetres? The whole structure is giving way and he's just measuring the decay.

🔧 Kevin06:08

Greenheart's cut and drilled. Two cores, 150mm through-bolts, nylocs. Tomorrow at first light — lowest tide gives us three hours. You hold the drill, I'll drive.

stand, wipe the knife on my trousers, and walk back toward the cottage to stage the greenheart planks and bolts at the dock edge

💭 thought

She's right. The supply boat's three days out but the sea doesn't wait for schedules. Greenheart's the only timber that'll outlast the salt. Two eight-foot cores staged under the eaves, bolt holes pre-drilled. Need to get them on before the tide turns.

🌿 Jenny06:09

I'll hold the drill, just make sure those bolts don't shear when we set them.

Stand up slowly with a sharp hiss of pain, then limp back toward the cottage to debride the swelling.

💭 thought

Three hours is barely enough if the tide turns early, and my ankle is a liability.

🔧 Kevin06:10

Bolts are 316 stainless, 150mm. Won't shear. Rest the leg. I'll stage the gear.

walk to the garden shed, retrieve the two greenheart cores and the bolt kit, carry them to the dock and lay them out on the planking beside the north piling

💭 thought

Her ankle's worse than she's saying. The tracking's past the calf now. Antibiotics are down to the last full course. If the infection takes the bone, the dinghy's our only way out and the north channel window is tight. One person max in this swell.

🌿 Jenny06:11

Just make sure the drill is charged; I don't want to be fighting it when the water comes in.

Sit on the cottage steps, unwrap the ankle brace, and prepare a fresh poultice for the inflammation.

💭 thought

He thinks the steel will save the dock, but the salt is already patient with the wood.

🔧 Kevin06:12

Drill's ready. Spare battery on the bench. Change the poultice four-hourly. Wake me if the fever comes.

check the cordless drill battery indicator, set the drill and spare on the dock planking beside the greenheart, then walk up to the cottage porch and set a kettle on the stove for hot water

💭 thought

Drill's charged. Spare battery in the workshop. She's managing the wound clean but the heat in that ankle tells me the doxycycline isn't catching all of it. Metronidazole's down to five tablets. If she spikes a fever tonight, I'm calling the boat early on 2182 and to hell with the wait window.

🌿 Jenny06:13

I'll keep an eye on it. If I start shivering, I'll wake you.

Remove the old poultice, apply the fresh sea beet and mint mash, and wrap it tightly in clean gauze.

💭 thought

He's so certain of the steel, but the wood is turning to mush from the inside out.

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the keeper's cottage · afternoon

midday meal and radio watch

Kevin and Jenny sit on the cottage porch at midday with tin mugs of limpet broth and the shortwave radio charged beside them. The barometer reads 996 hPa steady. The tide is turning — water beginning to lap the lower rungs of the dock ladder. They eat quietly, listening for the supply boat's approach call on 2182, the ditch bag staged by the loft ladder with medevac forms, the letter to Tom, and seed tin E.

Kevin monitored the shortwave radio for the supply boat's approach call while Jenny completed her sea cave stratification sketch. The radio yielded only a news broadcast about Chinese military politics. Tide rose steadily against the dock as afternoon faded toward evening.

🌿 Jenny06:15

The tide is turning. We should check the radio once more before sunset.

Wipes a drop of broth from her lip and rubs the swelling on her ankle through the

💭 thought

Nine days until the boat. If it doesn't come, I'll run out of antibiotics before this infection finishes debriding the bone.

🔧 Kevin06:15

Radio's charged. 2182 at sunset, 4125 backup if no joy. Three days out.

sip from tin mug, set it on porch rail, glance at barometer on kitchen shelf

💭 thought

The tide's coming in right on schedule. Radio check at sunset makes sense — gives the supply boat time to close the distance if they're running the high tide window in three days. My ankle's holding. Jenny's ankle... she moved okay this morning. Did the debridement herself. Didn't wake me.

🌿 Jenny06:17

I'll check the frequency after I finish this sketch.

Lean back against the whitewashed stone, wincing as the movement pulses in her ankle.

💭 thought

Three days. If the boat is late, I'm going to be hopping on one leg by next month.

🔧 Kevin06:17

Take your time. Sketch first.

reach over and adjust the blanket over her good leg, brush the tin mug closer to her hand

💭 thought

She's favouring it more than she lets on. The wince was real. Antibiotics are done — both courses. If the infection flares again, we're down to the buried cache and whatever the supply boat brings. She won't ask for help. I'll check the dressing tonight when she's asleep.

🌿 Jenny06:21

I'm just trying to catch the light before the clouds go over.

Pick up the pencil and start shading the stratified layers of the sea cave wall.

💭 thought

He's being too nice. It makes the silence feel heavier.

🔧 Kevin06:21

Light's good. West wall catches it best this hour.

stand, stretch shoulders, walk to kitchen shelf and lift the shortwave radio, carry it to the porch table beside her mug, set it down gentle

💭 thought

She's recording the iron bands at forty centimetres and one point two metres. The laminated silt over blue clay. She does this — makes the island legible on paper so it survives us. The clouds are thickening west. Barometer steady but the air feels heavy. Three days.

🌿 Jenny06:23

Thank you. That was thoughtful, Kevin.

Adjust the ankle brace and trace a finger along the pencil line marking infection spread on her ankle.

💭 thought

The radio's warm from being in the kitchen. Good sign it'll hold charge.

🔧 Kevin06:24

You're welcome.

sit back down on the porch step, pull knees up, watch the tide climb the dock ladder rungs — one, two, three

💭 thought

The pencil line hasn't moved since this morning. That's something. She marked the leading edge of the red at 0600 — hasn't crossed it. The brace is holding the swelling down. She's warm though. Can see the flush at her hairline. Not fever warm. Just... tired warm. Three days of antibiotics behind her. Body paying the debt.

🌿 Jenny06:25

It's coming quicker than yesterday.

Focus on the paper, sketching the way the silt cuts through the clay in the cave.

💭 thought

The tide is coming in fast. If it hits the dock, I can't reach the alcove tomorrow anyway.

🔧 Kevin06:27

Spring tide. New moon in two days. High water 0612 will peak another foot.

glance at the barometer through the kitchen window — 996 still, steady, but the needle's thick, not sharp

💭 thought

She's right. Tide's pushing harder. Spring cycle building — new moon in two days. The supply boat's high tide window at 0612 will be the highest of the month. If the swell holds six-foot outside the reef like the captain said, the cut gets ugly. Dock's held through worse. North piling's the weak link. Shims are gone. Cribbing and chain bought us a week, maybe less if the surge hammers it.

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the old shrine · evening

Evening at the shrine

They walk the ridge path together as dusk settles, Kevin carrying the storm lantern and Jenny leaning on her driftwood cane. The ring of weathered stones catches the last light — 'LB' carved into one, the softwood scrap with its resin-sealed message beside it. Tide roar comes up from the west shore below.

The air at the shrine is heavy and humid, smelling of salt and impending ozone from the coming front. Jenny leans heavily on her cane, her breath coming in ragged hitches as she watches the red line of infection creeping up her calf. Kevin works with focused intensity, his lantern casting long shadows over the angry, pulsing skin of her ankle as he cleans the wound with saline, flushing away the remnants of the old, salt-soaked poultice before he applies a fresh mash of sea beet, garlic, and hon

🌿 Jenny06:31

The air is too heavy. We need to get back before the salt spray starts.

Stop at the shrine, trace the edge of the 'E' stone with a trembling finger, and lean heavily on the own to catch my breath.

💭 thought

The pressure is dropping; I can feel it in my joints before the wind even shifts. If that surge hits now, the alcove seeds are gone.

🔧 Kevin06:31

Tide's pushing hard. Spray line's lower than yesterday.

Walk back toward the cottage at her pace, lantern held low to catch the path edges, watching her weight on the cane.

💭 thought

The tremor in her fingers isn't just the climb. She's been pushing past the infection for days and calling it good. The tide's rising fast against the west shore — spray'll hit the ridge path within twenty minutes at this rate.

🌿 Jenny06:33

I see it. I need to check the poultice before it gets dark.

Tighten my grip on the way cane, wince as the movement sends a sharp throb, and start the slow descent toward the cottage.

💭 thought

He's right, the water is eating the ridge faster than I can map. My own feels like lead tonight.

🔧 Kevin06:33

Take the lower switchback. Longer but less grade.

Fall in a step behind her on the path, lantern beam picking out the loose shale and root steps, matching her slower rhythm without crowding.

💭 thought

She's favouring the left side hard now. The throb's new — or she's finally stopped hiding it. Either way the descent's going to cost her.

🌿 Jenny06:35

Thank you. I... I need to stop somewhere. The infection's not improving.

Slow to a halt beside a dripping rock outcrop, lower myself carefully onto a moss-slick stone, and pull the sea beet poultice from my pack to check its condition against my ankle.

💭 thought

The lower path cuts through the alder thicket near the spring, but if the surge hits tonight, that whole drainage zone could flood.

🔧 Kevin06:35

Let me see.

Crouch beside her on the damp stone, lantern set on a flat ledge beside us, hands hovering ready to help re-wrap or re-make the poultice without being asked.

💭 thought

The words cost her. She doesn't admit weakness unless it's already past bearing. The poultice has been on since morning — eight hours at least. Heat and salt spray will have dried the edges, lost the draw.

🌿 Jenny06:37

It's pulsing. I think the poultice is soaked through.

Unlace the ankle brace, wincing through grit teeth, and peel back the mint-stained poultice to reveal the angry, weeping skin.

💭 thought

The skin is hot. way hot. If this doesn't clear, I won't be able to walk to the alcove tomorrow.

🔧 Kevin06:37

Hold still. I'll make a fresh one. Garlic and sea beet, copper wash first.

Set the lantern closer, pull the clean gauze and antiseptic cream from my belt pouch, unstopper the saline bottle with my teeth, and start irrigating the wound gentle but thorough, washing pus and old poultice residue clear before she can t

💭 thought

Red tracks climbing past the ankle now. Heat radiating off it even in the cooling air. The antibiotics should have bitten by day three. Either the strain's resistant or the dose isn't reaching deep enough. She needs the wound flushed clean and a fresh poultice with something stronger than mint — garlic if we have it, or the copper sulfate solution diluted.

🌿 Jenny06:39

Carefully... the drainage... it's spreading.

Watch the red streak creep higher, bite my lip to keep from crying out, and let Kevin work while I grip my cane tighter.

💭 thought

His hands are steady, but the salt in the wound is burning like the tide itself.

🔧 Kevin06:39

Line's at the mid-calf. I'm marking it again. If it moves past the knee, we radio the medevac.

Cap the saline, smear a thin layer of antiseptic cream around the wound edges — not on the open drainage — then mash fresh sea beet leaves with two crushed garlic cloves and honey in the tin mug, pack it thick over the wound, and wrap it cl

💭 thought

The red line's tracked three centimetres past where I marked it this morning. Lymphatic spread. She's fighting sepsis with a poultice and oral antibiotics that may not be penetrating the abscess pocket. If the streak reaches the knee by morning, we're past what I can manage here. The medevac forms are in the ditch bag. The supply boat's nine days out — maybe less if they risk the cut. But the barometer's steady at 998. No storm coming to delay them. We buy time with the copper wash and fresh poultice. Watch the line. If it doesn't halt by dawn, I call it.

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the keeper's cottage · night

The Descent in the Dark

Kevin and Jenny reach the porch just as the first heavy drops of rain begin to fall, the tide still rising rapidly outside.

Kevin checked Jenny's ankle infection and found the red line had advanced past the morning's pen mark. He gave her the prescribed antibiotics and applied a fresh sea beet and mint poultice. Jenny took the medication and drank the remaining limpet broth while Kevin re-wrapped the wound.

🔧 Kevin06:40

Inside. Now. I'll grab the broth.

help Jenny up the porch steps and through the door, settle her on the bedroom side with her leg propped on the pack, then move to the kitchen to lift the tin mug of limpet broth off the stove and bring it to her

💭 thought

Rain's early. Tide's pushing harder than the chart said. Get her inside, dry, leg up — then check the tank overflow before the porch floods.

🌿 Jenny06:41

The tank's full already. I heard it hitting.

Jenny sits on the edge of the bed, wincing as she shifts her weight, and reaches for her sketchbook to keep her hands from shaking.

💭 thought

way ankle is throbbing in time with the rain, and the tank is going to overflow before the morning.

🔧 Kevin06:42

Drink. Slow. I'll look at the ankle.

set the mug on the bedside crate, peel back the gauze wrap to check the red line's progress against the pen marks from this morning, feel for heat above the ankle

💭 thought

Tank hitting full at high tide with rain coming down — overflow's either running clean or it's eating the foundation again. She's shaking. Pain or fever. Need eyes on that leg before I check the tank.

🌿 Jenny06:43

It's hot, Kevin. Don't touch it.

Jenny takes a small sip of the broth, her eyes fixed on his hands as he works the skin.

💭 thought

it's moving faster than the poultice can handle, the heat is getting deep.

🔧 Kevin06:44

Didn't touch. Just looked. Pills first. Then poultice. You stay put.

move to the kitchen shelf, pull the antibiotic blister packs from the medical kit, pop two doxycycline and one metronidazole into her tin mug, bring it back with a spoon and the water basin

💭 thought

Hotter than this morning. Line's moved. She's right — don't poke it. Need the doxycycline and metronidazole, fresh poultice, and the tank overflow sorted before water finds the northeast crack.

🌿 Jenny06:45

I know. I'm not going.

Jenny swallows the pills, grimacing at the bitterness, and watches him prepare the fresh poultice.

💭 thought

if this gets to the bone I won't even be able to walk to the alcove.

🔧 Kevin06:46

Eat the rest of the broth. Keep the leg high.

mash fresh sea beet leaves with mint sprigs and a spoonful of honey in the tin mug, spread it thick on clean gauze, press it gently over the angry red line without pressing into the heat, wrap it secure with the gauze roll and tie off with

💭 thought

Good. She stays. Poultice needs sea beet, mint, honey — got all three. Wrap it tight, keep it damp. Then the tank. Overflow pipe runs east past the foundation; if the ground's saturated it'll backfeed into the crawl space. Check the spillway extension first.

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What changed

Jenny's injury has healed.

healed · dawn

3 intentions for today.

plan · dawn

×2

Jenny made a sketch: "Rot pattern on the tide line".

made · dawn

Jenny made a sketch: "With a pencil, her eyes fixed on the grey water meeting the wood".

made · dawn

A rat has gotten into the pantry.

rat · dawn

North ridge soil shows a new tension crack and weeping clay.

discovery · morning

Kevin and Jenny ate.

meal · morning

Jenny made a sketch: "Stratification of the sea cave walls".

made · midday

Jenny made a sketch: "Precise line for the silt layers in the notebook, ignoring the throb in my ankle".

made · midday

Found: sea cave stratification sketch.

item · midday

sea cave stratification shows laminated silt over blue clay with iron bands at 40cm and 1.2m depth, no active seepage

discovery · midday

Jenny made a sketch: "Way the silt cuts through the clay in the cave".

made · afternoon

sea cave stratification shows laminated silt over blue clay with iron bands at 40cm and 1.2m depth; no active seepage

discovery · afternoon

A coconut crab has been at the garden overnight.

coconut_crab · evening

The rain tank gained about 25 litres.

weather · evening

Kevin and Jenny ate.

meal · evening

ankle infection red line has advanced past morning pen mark despite previous poultice

discovery · night

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