Rest Day

May 18

Today is Sunday and I have discouraged any work today. Despite this, Jim Trimby worked from sunrise to sunset. He does not like sitting around. By the end of the day we had electricity in all of the rooms in the bunkhouse. As for me, the only work I did was to check the chlorination residual.

Our residual was 2ppm. It was a bit high, but safe to drink. This was the second day in a row where our residual was acceptable. To mark this auspicious occasion, I took my water bottle to the water tap and filled it up. With no other filtering or treatment, I drank the water as a final test to see if the tap water is potable. If I get sick in the next 24 hours, we will know we made a mistake.

Much of the rest of the day was spent just hanging out at Manari. We spent many hours fishing for piranha in our swimming hole. A few days ago some local boys caught three of them at the hole. As for us, we spent an hour just figuring out where we might find some worms, then after digging up a good supply and baiting some hooks, our worms were mostly eaten by bait fish with us only catching a few of the bait fish. They were quickly eaten off the hooks without us getting any piranha.

The evening ended with nice dinner and we watched another DVD; The Last Castle. The team is in good spirits. Our worksite is in great shape. Our water system is phenomenal. It will feel good to finish this project.