Constructive

After hammering in the stakes in the stream bed around a metre or two in from the tree line, the two-headed up to the bamboo grove. The chain saws worked a treat and soon enough they'd felled around 20 bamboo sending them downriver.

The plans I'd had to get us separate to omit awkwardness had obviously failed and we had spent the entire time cutting bamboo down in silence but for some reason, the awkward air seemed to have vanished. We walked back to the fall and climbed down, "Hey, I have a question. Why are we taking all this stuff back to the beach? wouldn't it make sense to move closer to the waterfall?" Alice asked.

I thought for a second, before answering "Well we need to keep an eye out for boats and stuff so that we can signal them down and we can be rescued."

"Yeah but, we could probably set up a good camp halfway between the beach and the falls. We'd be shaded in the morning and if we're close to the stream it's easier to collect water," she argued.

I really didn't have any good argument against it, especially when my brain just thought of more benefits to moving came a little further up. "We have to build our shack first, so what if we find a nice spot, I know there are one or two areas close to the river that might work, we can clear it and start building everything. Then once everything is built then we can move camp. Sound good?"

Alice smiled and nodded before grabbing my hand as we walked the rest of the way back to the pool at the bottom of the waterfall. It was a slight mess, bamboo was floating all over in the pool but it looked like every pole was still in the pool.

We collected everything and piled it up on the grass before making our way back towards the beach. We needed a good spot to set up our new camp so both of us kept our eyes out. The spot we found was closer to the waterfall than I'd hoped for, in fact, it was close enough that we could still hear it in the background, we'd walked maybe a minute before seeing a decently flat and empty space. I tried to argue that we'd just keep that place in mind for a possible spot but I knew that look in Alice's eyes.

We continued back to the beach to fetch some tools mainly the multi-tool that could be turned into a shovel among other things, we grabbed the axes and plenty of paracord before making our way back and starting to clear Alice's perfect spot.

It took us a while but we managed to clear the debris and floor of any obstruction before we started planning out our new camp. We basically mapped out the area which was maybe four metres across, it wasn't a perfect circle or square or anything but there was plenty of space. My hope would be that we'd be able to completely wall ourselves in, we hadn't had problems with wildlife yet. We hadn't actually seen anything other than birds and fish but we had definitely heard other kinds of animals.

Once finished we both needed a rest so we laid on the ground, or at least I did, someone used my body as a mattress and laid her head on my chest. I knew I should tell her we shouldn't since we were both still completely naked but I was too tired to argue and honestly the closeness felt really nice.