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[16 June 1948]
piece of rock-climbing, which took us to where we 
bathed from the launch on the 14th. Another piece 
of rock-climbing took us to the point which was not 
negotiable without going up so we had lunch high 
up on a large flat rock. 
  Climbing after lunch we came upon a pair 
of Stone-curlews on the ridge. Then a brute of a 
climb down to a beach through steep thick scrub. 
It was a small coral beach with cliff at the 
farther end. On a projection of this cliff was 
an Osprey's nest which when I climbed to it 
found it to contain 3 eggs. The birds were 
pinking anxiously about. I took a photo 
and left it. We climbed on till we found 
that we had to traverse another wide thick 
gully to the next headland.  
  So we went on up the ridge to 
arrive on the peak at 5.0 pm. On the way up 
a small party of Rainbow-birds flew over towards 
the west. The view from the top was magnificent, 
the islands laid out at our feet in deep blue water 
with the sky approaching sunset.
  We scrambled down over rocks +[and] thick 
tall grass, falling almost every step, to stumble 
home at 6.0 pm.