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[26 October 1955] 
(Thursday) 
[October 1955] 
steadily cleared we could see more of 
the peaks around us, Queenstown was 
dreadful - bare eroded hillsides. We 
found we could not go down to Strahan 
next day by railway as planned. 
We left in the morning, again 
through interesting, very thick bush, but 
several excursions into did not reveal the 
Scrub-tit. Zeehan was as equally 
depressing as Queenstown - more so, 
perhaps as it was very much more 
deserted. We put our car on the 
train and instead of waiting that 
day in Zeehan and travelling north 
with it in the morning, we travelled 
on the 1.20 rail-coach to Burnie where 
we thought we would be happier than 
Zeehan! We went through extremely 
thick bush with deep gorges, eventually 
coming out onto cleared hillsides like 
Beech Forest, with the gullies not cleared. 
However it was 4% hours of bush 
and we were very relieved to see the 
