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[14 th August 1949]. rain forest. We went a few hundred yards 
down Turton's Track, had a cup of tea and 
returned to the main road and so 
down to Apollo Bay where of course 
were SILVER GULLS and far out to sea 
an Albatross. 
Having filled the car with petrol, oil, 
water, fruit and chocolate we moved westwards 
on the Ocean Rd. We stopped at the 
house of a chap called Stones whom we 
were told could lead us to the bower-bird. 
He was an old chap who had lived in 
that part of the bush all his life and 
amused me by cursing the bower-birds 
which came into the house and soiled 
his floors and tables as well as scaring 
the cats out of their lives. For a month 
or two in the winter they made a nuisance 
of themselves in the early morning but a 
day or two previously they had departed 
and he could not say where they could 
be found. We passed the C. Otway turning 
and started to descend that lovely gully. 
