More parking please!!!

This is the lower car parking spot good but not ideal.

If anyone has ever looked at real estate in The Dandenongs they will quickly realise access and parking spaces are at a premium. Our place was one of the better ones we saw with in our budget. to put simply it was great by standards in the hills. We can drive right up next to the house where there is a single parking spot. We have to back down the drive and back into a single width car parking space to allow us to drive out the drive forwards again.

The new improved widened car parking area

When our friend recently came with a 5 tonne excavator to remove stumps and do some trenching for us. We also got him to widen our lower car parking area. Cutting into the hill and putting that dirt on the bottom side, thus making a much more usable space. Its now fantastic we can now park two large cars/utes side by side easily. It has now rained on and off for the last 3 days meaning when ever a car is driven on it lots of mud is left up and down the drive, making a huge mess. So yesterday I had 4 cubic metres of crushed rock delivered and spread over all that sticky, yucky, messy MUD!!! the fill on the bottom side needs time to settle and can not be driven on yet. It would give way and cause any car to roll down the hill so I put up some star pickets and safety/warning tape so visitors don't get into trouble.
To complete this area I have to build a retaining wall to support the ground to the left of the ute, and when the fill settles and in stable and solid I will plant some native Bottle Brush shurbs to give the birds and wildlife some shelter. When money is available I now have an area I can build a proper MAN SHED. It will mean I have a dry area to work and a large more practicle area than I have now to store tools, etc. A car port can go out the front meaning cars can be parked under shelter and be protected. (Another day another project)! AND the area above where the retaining wall will go gets sun all day and is a perfect place for my Raspberry & Blackberry patch complete with trellis, but that's another project.

With gravel spread & safety barrier up. Just the
retaining wall to go on the top side.