Some progress has been made, albeit pedestrian in the extreme.

I have some white polymer powder for pond sealing purposes. The tale of how I got that to New Zealand could be an entertaining side-story.

I'm paying a couple of European back-packers to screen the rocks and stones from the pond bed, leaving me with the fines to mix the polymer powder with.

They expect to be finished in a couple of days. It's not overly hard work, but tedious and tiring.

The 'base course' looks like this:


After I've spread the fines where the screening has been done, in preparation for adding and mixing the sealant, the view is like this.


Perhaps I'll be close to having a pond by Xmas?