Working in water

After very heavy and prolonged rain yesterday everything was very wet and muddy this morning.  I didn't expect to see the JCB come today as I expected that it would be too muddy.  

It did come, as the picture shows, and very surprisingly was able to work in the half finished pond.  According to Kireet  - who said he had never been able to do this before - it was because under the soil is hard packed gravel which makes a very good base for the JCB.  This explains why this area suffers so badly from flooding as the water cannot percolate through the gravel.

More great work was done and it should be finished tomorrow provided it doesn't rain tonight.