Friday 1st April 2022

John Cooper, Dave Morrison, Geoff Newton and Andrew Thompson. Quite a bit of clatch removed. Spent some time working on the pointy boulder but it just splintered when drilling the end. Eventually it wouldn’t release a plug and broke the tip off the drill bit. Dropped the boulder so it is now possible to drill the top of it. Depth at end of session was 9.4m. 3 hours. John.

Wednesday 30th March 2022

John Cooper, Dave Morrison and Andrew Thompson. Depth at end of session was 9.2m. Plug and feathers used to break up boulders. Quite a bit of clatch removed. Some cementing done at end. Need more sand and cement. 3 hours. John.

Tuesday 29th March 2022

John Cooper and Andrew Thompson. Depth at start 8.5m. Plug and feathers used to break up boulder. Not very effective at start because boulder surface kept fracturing. Eventually got it sorted. Bit of cementing done at end. 2 hours. John.

Thursday 24th March 2022

John Cooper, Dave Morrison and Andrew Thompson (and Wayne stopped by for a visit). Widening the bottom by John using plug and feathers. Also some clatch removed. Depth measured at 26¼ ft (must do it myself next time in metres!). 2½ hours. John.

Tuesday 15th March 2022

John Cooper, Mark Helmore, Dave Morrison, Andrew Thompson and Chris Williams. Took across another large water container. Plug and feathers used to break up a couple of boulders into bits small enough to haul out. Also removed a load of muddy clatch. Some work done on surface repositioning haul line. Draught coming outwards today. 2 hours. John.