We're bringing you a backlog video!
It's very special to us! The achievement is on par with the prop building. Something we never thought we could do ourselves in a million years but then just went and did it. And it works to this day!
The dam is a temporary measure until we reinstate the sluice gates and we are currently working on plans for those, as well as improvements to our fish pass.
Unfortunately, this was waaaay way way before we got out fancy microphones and in the early days of filming spoken content, so you might get a little sea sick! Sorry about that! The good thing is that the sound of the water really shows just how strong the currents were.
It doesn't come across in the time-lapse but we really had to fight the current. There was a couple of times we nearly lost the grip on our props and the day before all this happened we slung a concrete block into the stream, thinking we could pile up sandbags against it, but it was getting swept away into the wheel. We resorted to tying the sling to a tree trunk and we fished it out the next day (it can just about be seen in the time-lapse).
Here's the video! For the construction bit skip ahead to about 3:50, or listen to our shenanigans, whatever floats your mill...
For future reference, here is our highest water mark recorded to date. October 28th 2022:
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