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[27th (Thursday)]
sea and get into a comfortable hotel.
28th (Friday)  A real day off. The morning
we simply sat on the front, reading
in the sun. After lunch we
returned to the writing-room at the
hotel where I am writing this. But
a rude awakening was near. When I went
to check on the car I found, that, owing
to a long weekend, the train was not on its
usual schedule and the car would not be
available before the morning! So after a
consultation with Joan we decided she would
stay on another night and come on in
the morning and I would catch the
5.0 pm train. What I could have said
about the fool at Zeehan! I took the
train and arrived at Devonport at 6.30,
had a meal at the hotel and spent an
extremely pleasant evening with Mac and
Mrs Mac, during which an undue amount
of whisky was drunk - no birds except 
SILVER GULLS nesting on three islands, close
offshore, which I noticed from the train.