Another Day on the Beach.......

Well not exactly, With a little number of animals in the area we were at our trips to shore were few. To pass the other days I signed up for one of the Community Relations projects (COMRELS) like I did in Vietnam.

On shore there was a huge tree that got blown over during the latest tsunami. The locals couldn't chop it up because of the thickness and they asked if we could give a hand. I was out on the third day of cutting and the thing was still huge. No one had planned for such a gigantic mission so we used the chainsaws until the blades were too dull to do any more work without overheating the engines. We were given machettes by the on lookers when the saws were cooling off. It was good to take out some frustration on the trees with these long knives. They worked great for the little to medium sized branches but not so much for the thicker trunks, wich there seemed to be alot more of. In the end we did make several stacks of firewood for the villagers.

At the end of our day we had only managed to get about a quarter of the tree cut and stacked. The engineers all agreed that the project was too big to finish with the given equipment.