Irrigation / Irritation

What is that sound? Water?! There is water running through the old irrigation channels! We had not expected that. So they are still in use.

We now understand the lighter stripes on the fields too. They are tiny "dykes" of clay that are used to stop the water running further.

Apparently they switch on the water every few months to water the orange groves.

Zoomba runs free a few times a day with her ZoombaTracker. She also runs through the water channels, because het lower half was wet, and so was the ZoombaTracker. That cost a lipo-battery and an Arduino, a lot of cursing and bug finding. Lucky the GSM/GPS module still works, that is the most difficult part, and I only have two. (That was the "irritation" bit. More for the sake of the fun alliteration than for your information.)