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<p>[Page 9]</p><p>to plant a large vegetable garden, plus a soccer field. The land is well sheltered in a valley between the first two big hills near the camp and the hotel on the road to Jerseyville, which I have mentioned a few times already. In the back of the valley is the reservoir that supplies the camp with water. As mentioned earlier, the reservoir was in disrepair when we first arrived in Trial Bay. But since then the basin and its feeding trenches have been thoroughly cleaned and repaired, and because we've had more rainfall this year, the reservoir has been mostly full. After strong rains the excess water runs off into the valley, so that the soil is well irrigated and of good quality. Of course, all the work [for the vegetable garden] such as surveying, tree logging, bush clearing, digging of trenches, sodding and fencing-in had to be done by volunteers. The camp till only paid for the tools and the seeds, etc, and in turn the crops will benefit the whole camp. Since we used to spend</p>