It's been a long time coming, but at long last a posting on progress at "The Lookout", Lot 31 North Boambee Road, Coffs Harbour. Those who've been following the story know of our purchase of 10 acres just 4 kilometres South of Coffs Harbour CBD.
Those who've been paying attention heard of us needing to move the building site for our home due to "land slippage" problems as advise by a local Geotech firm. The new position was to be quite a small footprint on a rather steep part of the block very near the border of the block overlooking our neighbour's house. Erm ... Less than ideal! Such is life, we accepted the need and moved on to engage a local earthmoving firm (John Lacey Earthmoving) to cut a good road (as distinct from a steep track that serviced the site previously) to the new building site. We rolled up to the site with John to lay out what we wanted to do and he in no uncertain terms questioned the expertise of the Geotech firm and persuaded us to have a look at the ground after the new road had cut through our preferred site and see if we really wanted to pursue what would have been a very expensive and complicated build. To cut a long story short, our preferred site is fine and we have confirmed this with a local civil engineers - David O'Meara (before anyone thinks we are heading off half cocked!). We are now very close to having a large platform carved into our site and a nice gently inclined 4 metre road leading to the site. We might have even had the earthworks complete if we hadn't had about 12 inches of rain over the last week! Tomorrow we are having a site visit with our architect, Christian Fisher, John and David to identify next steps.
I've spent some time stitching some photo's together into some rough panorama's to give you an idea of what's happening on the site ...
Looking up to the building site from the bottom of the block:
Stitched panorama looking out to sea about 20 metres below building site:
View to the road from the building site:
A stitched panorama (at this stage) of the building platform:
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Excellent! It's all happening!
Hi Guys! Looks like an exciting time! Back to the previous design: Is that the long low one, with the pool, and floating bar, and bbq island, and the subterranean lair with wall to wall plasmas, where Mike can cackle to himself and plan world domination?
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