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[26 th September 1948] gulls could see me plainly, sitting 
uncomfortably hunched inside smoking 
and eating apples (at least I being inside 
was out of the wind). The flapping 
hide as well as the camera bellows 
made that instrument vibrate and 
shake. 
I stayed for an hour and though 
gulls came as close as ten feet, that 
gull did not come to that nest. I 
took a photo before I left the hide and 
the camera movement was so great 
that the nest could scarcely be recognized 
in the result. 
Then I packed up and came 
home for lunch. It was my first 
time in a hide - a complete failure - 
but great fun and a few lessons 
have been learnt. 
(18) 
In the afternoon I went down to 
the valley beyond Mimosa at Gellibrand. 
It was quiet and sheltered from the 
