Yes. you have a very low water table. With winter rains however you may get a much wetter bottom (I could have phrased that better ) at the deep end of the wire - especially if it had a wide surface
My arm aches from throwing plastic milk bottles full of water over trees to the peril of my neighbours. One day I will tell you the tale of how I broke my foot with a golf ball attached to some 300 l
Perhaps we can meet at some rally and I can (secretly) reveal how a big garden bonfire resulted in an aerial insulator falling out of the sky onto my head...don't mention it in NZ , no sense of humou