With the road finished right up to the resort entrance, trucks were able to deliver supplies right up to the parking lot which made our deliveries less expensive and less labor intensive.  The parking lot at this point was still a work in progress and the retaining wall along the road had yet to be extended along the actual entry way to the resort. We will see how that was done in the next post.

The topic of this post will be the building of the underground water storage tank.  You may think that this doesn’t sound too interesting,  but the actual construction process really is quite fascinating (in my humble opinion).  The village surrounding our mountain top has a spring fed water supply.  We have no water source on the mountain top so Wayan negotiated a contract with the village head, and I believe five other families, which allowed us to buy lifetime access to the water supply.  Wayan felt we should construct an underground storage tank to store water.  The tank is twelve feet deep and lined with cinder block and concrete.  As with all the building, this was done with hand tools; no bobcat available to dig that very large and deep hole.  Shovel by shovelful the hole was dug.  Dirt was hauled up in buckets and taken away to be used later for fill.  Cement was sent down into the hole by small  buckets on ropes.

As you  will see in the photos, the tank was built to last a long time; just like everything else on our little mountain top.  I have gathered together almost sixty photos of the construction process and they are attached to this post. I hope that you enjoy them.  I know that every time I take a drink of water or bathe on our mountain top, I will think of all the hard work that went into the place to store that water.