1. How to build a BUNYIP
to measure contours
Pictures courtesy of the Permaculture Design Course 2012
Homer, Alaska Ageya Wilderness Center
Co-instructors: Rico Zook and Cindee Karns

2. Take two
large
poles

3. Nail your free
Spenard
Builders’
yardsticks to
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4. Tape on your
clear plastic
tubing.
I think ours was
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3/4”.

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Make sure the yard sticks are exactly the
same number of inches from the top.

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Now comes the hardest part!

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Looks easy, right?

8. This end high.
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This end low.
Trying to chase
the bubbles out. Got it!

9. Now you can
place these
anywhere on
your slope or
field and if the
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water level is the
same, the two
sticks are on
contour.

10. So it doesn’t
matter where the
tube goes.
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If the two water
levels are
uneven, they are
not on contour.
Can you see one is at 31” and the other at 30”

11. To find contour with a bunyip, you
will need two people.
And of course, lots of stakes to
mark the contour.
Then on to digging!
Argh!