I woke up at about 5:00 a.m. I wanted to keep sleeping but I was too excited to check out the land. At about 6:30 a.m. I saw small glowing orange patches on the eastern side of the tent. The sun rose much further down the hill than I'd anticipated.
This was great. It meant the woodsy land would receive sun from more angles and for a longer period. It also meant that a large number of small gardens could be situated around the hill and all receive light throughout the day. I made a short video to give some idea what I had landed in...
I have an HD camcorder with which I filmed each day for the next three weeks. Unfortunately, it stores the files as MTS (a file extension for an AVCHD--Advanced Video Coding High Definition video clip format for high-definition video). These are very large-memory video files. Just to transfer them from the camera takes a long time. But converting them to standard MP4 can take up to an hour per minute (!). Therefore, after Day 24 (still to come) there will be more video, because I changed back over to my phone as my video capture device. For now, and until then, only a small portion of the videos taken can be published here. Eventually though, the camera footage will be appropriate for an HDTV quality documentary (if such a thing is ever possible).
This day was spent exploring the land, getting the fly up, going into town to check messages (since the phone didn't seem to be working), and generally organizing. As I said above, there was much more video footage that would be very interesting to add to this post, but that is not possible at this time.
I went to bed at about 9:00 pm and had another good night's sleep.
TASKS COMPLETED
* Got the rain fly onto the tent
* Set up the solar power system
* Organized tools and other equipment
* Built a fire pit
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