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Elayna manages a 26-hectare off-grid farm build in Vanuatu alone after Riley is evacuated to Australia with confirmed dengue fever and a C-reactive protein reading of 180 — far above the normal threshold of 3 — indicating a serious secondary bacterial infection.1:16 The property, purchased for $500,000 USD, requires a 700-metre driveway cut through jungle to bedrock using an excavator, a new front gate with posts dug one metre into coral-based soil, and a repaired caretaker's house roof to shelter the work crew.0:03 Elayna misaligns the gate posts to the existing driveway tracks instead of squaring them to the road, forcing a restart.6:07 The caretaker's roof proves equally difficult: the underlying frame is crooked from earthquake damage, causing tin sheets to skew, and the crew improvises by manufacturing an oversized central ridge cap rather than rebuilding the frame.31:15 Road base on the property is crushed coral, the local bedrock material.26:37 Vanuatu's French-run clinics handle routine care, but limited specialist equipment makes serious illness a trigger for medical evacuation to Australia.3:03 Riley returns once stable.22:31 The week confirms that every farm task takes significantly longer than anticipated.33:46

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