Today it is Thursday 6th July 2017 (or so they say), and the Heartsong land is now allowing a satellite dish to stand on the land.   Although this is something not organic to land and Earth, we are most grateful to this amazing land to accept this way of connection to the outside world.

We find ourselves in a world of our own here on this land, where we are communing with nature and each other, and are most content doing so.  However, we wish to share this amazing journey with our so many virtual friends, so we appreciate this opportunity to connect with our friends and family out there.  This way, I will be better able to post updates with photos and videos to share.  This journey is so wonderful and we love sharing with any who enjoy watching this inflowment.  We also are more than willing to support and encourage any others who are looking to take this sort of path.

There have been challenges, of course, living on raw land, long distances from the usual outlets for food, utilities, supplies etc, but all in all, each one of us here is glad to be in this environment, far from commerce and the so called “civilization”!
We have a beautiful supply of water from our springs which flows constantly.  Currently, we catch the current as it flows down the hill past our camp down to the river below the land.   The water comes in fairly clean, but we filter it through our 5 gallon Berkey filter that Eagle brought along with him.  This way, we have clean water to drink, bathe in and wash dishes etc.  We have black shower bags which we fill with the spring water and lay out in the sun, which warms it, and then we hang one of the bags up on our shower frame and the water freely flows down for a nice fresh shower – I’ve got to say, showering in this spring water feels SO good!

We have been doing a fair amount of work on the land – yesterday we started a second digging for the underground water tank.  The first one resulted in our finding a massive rock two and a half feet down, which was not going to be shifted, so we had to find another location which is also lower than where the spring water emerges.  With any bit of luck, this new location will be perfect.  Once we get the spring catchment screen set up, along with the springbox, we can guide the water into the 600 gallon tank.  Then we can pipe water down to the Heartsong Hideout which is located here at camp.  This way, we will have even more water to access.   We have had a lot of heavy downpours from passing storms the last few days, so water is abundant!!  This is something we have no complaints about!  Water is the basis of everything, so a bit of mud and wet tents etc are not an issue!  Talking of tents, aside of a little dampness from under, the tents are sound and we have had all dry nights – a big storm the second night we were here had us awake some of the night, but not because of  dripping tents, but because of hefty thunder and heavy drumming rain!   Due to there being so much rain – often in a very short length of time, we have dug drains across the roads to catch the fast running water and guide it across into the stream and the coverts to help lessen erosion.  Keeping active is something that is quite easy around here and we are getting very fit!
Also, we cleared a part of the area where we will start our garden.  The earth is SO rich and beautiful – we call it black gold!!

We  have a good area cleared where we will soon start building the earthbag dome for Heart Space Base,

as well as our clearing an old logging road that was covered with leaves, mulch, young trees and ferns.

We will be able to access our building area via the open logging roads which are in good shape, and this road that we just cleared.  It is uphill the whole way, but we are getting strong legs as we walk up and down, and we have Black Beauty, our Toyota 4WD truck who is well able for negotiating these roads when it is dry.  I don’t like the trucks going up and down when it is wet, I am all for preserving the roads as much as possible.
We keep on improving our camp, what with our firepit shelter, so that we can still sit by the fire when it is raining!  It has taken a while for it not to hold water on the roof, or to drip heavily from the edges splattering us, and to create a chimney that works to help keep the smoke going out – but it is in pretty good shape now.  We have a channel dug across the front which catches most of the runoff from the area in front.

Camp in general is brilliant though – we have the Hideout, which we use basically for cooking and storing stuff.  Then we have our tents for sleeping.

And the campfire, as previously mentioned.  Then we have the water passing by.

It’s perfect and I am loving my life here, as are all the tribe members.  I am so very grateful to all that has occurred to enable me to get started with this project, as I am to all who are participating, and all who will do as we move on.
Further reports will follow – and much more frequently, now that we have internet!
Love and appreciation to all.