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[26 (Wednesday)]
steadily cleared we could see more of
the peaks around us, Queenstown was
dreadful â”€ bare eroded hillsides. We 
found we could not go down to Strahan 
next day by railway as planned.
27th (Thursday)  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 â”€ 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 4Â½  hours of bush
and we were very relieved to see the