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16 June 1948 [margin]Is [crossed out]39[/crossed out] T 68 (6)[/margin]
  A beautiful day was set apart for an 
all day excursion in the cruising boats 'Marlin' 
and 'KingFish'. We were all loaded aboard from 
a flat bottomed boat in the lagoon and when the 
boats started they found themselves both aground. So 
back we came to the shore and that was that day's 
cruise! The whole party was to have a picnic 
on the flats behind the huts but we decided to 
have a walk round the island.
  We started off at 10.10 with Mr +[and] Mrs 
Calman - Heather +[and] Irwin, â€“ a most delightful 
couple on their honeymoon. For the first part 
we took a path leading north from the western 
arm of the bay. It did not take us far 
before impossible rocks forced us upward. It was 
there that I saw a Heron which seemed 
larger than the Reef Heron with lanceolated feathers 
down the nape and back. I have so far not 
been able to identify it.
  As we climbed we came upon a 
goat with two kids a few days old. We had 
quite away to go before we dropped down into 
a beach where there were a Bar-shouldered 
Dove, a Mangrove Heron and a pair of Stone-curlews. 
From that beach to the next we had a very fine