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26^^ (Wednesday). We spent the morning at L. St. 
[October 1955] Claire. The weather had cleared up 
considerably and through there was cloud 
on the surrounding peaks, we were not 
wet and there was no wind. I pottered 
round for a while and then we walked 
round the lake. Our first track was the 
lake's edge track for a way where I had 
a beautiful view of a Ewing's Thornbill, 
which up the base of the L. Hugel track 
in magnificent beech forest - but no 
sign of the Scrub-Tit. We left at 
midday, - very well satisfied with our 
night 'camping' and the memories of 
the wallabies - begging food in the tent at 
breakfast and 'mum' scratching when I put 
a biscuit in her pouch for Joey. 
The drive down to Queenstown was 
taken slowly and was interesting. The 
bush was v. [very] thick and as the weather 
