Digging the trenches

And so it begins – the real work of digging the trenches for the foundations.

The site was cleared and we managed to keep some of the veld that has been sitting on this ridge undisturbed for what could be decades. I can’t remember a fire in this area and I have been coming here since I was a kid in the 80’s.

As exciting as building a house on the coastline is, the flipside is that the intouched environment gets destroyed. Hopefully we can be sensitive to the pieces that remain.