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26th (Wednesday).    We spent the morning at L.[ake] S[ain]t. 
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[ake] Hugel track
in magnificent beech forest  â”€ but no
sign of the Scrub-Tit. We left at 
midday, â”€ very well satisfied with our
night 'camping' and the memories of
the wallabies - beggin 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 [?] thick and as the weather