April, 1936. The Queensland Naturalist 
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(rare). I went to bed early that evening as I intended 
to go shelling by lamp light between 2.30 a.m. and 6 a.m. 
T lighted the carbide bicycle lamp, and as the tide was 
more or less right out, made down for the mud flats at the 
foot of steeply sloping beach and was lucky to procure 
two beautiful Phalium areola shells and some Nassonus 
eoronatu-s I went round the spit and long the rock to 
Considine Beach for more tooth shells and if possible 
Thais echinatum , but the tide had come in too far to pro- 
cure more than one only, so I scrutinised the beach for 
other material and got some interesting finds including 
Fusinus boardmani. I made for the mangroves but could 
not see as much as a broken fragment of Tellina capsoides, 
so came home for breakfast and had a dip and went to 
bed to make up for loss of sleep. Saturday afternoon, 
after a good sleep and sorting out and cleaning material 
I made for Massey Bay again and the coral shelf for more 
shells of interest like the previous afternoon. I waded out 
knee deep, but did not do any good, so came back to the 
drier part of the coral shelf,, collecting Cowries , Troch- 
idae , Ostreae, Chamindae, etc., and a few Cerithium echin- 
atum and C. pulchrum. On Sunday I got up about day- 
break, but the tide was too far in to do much shelling. 
I did not feel well, so a trip to Rocky Bay was cancelled 
in favour of one along Shark’s Bay towards Monkey Point. 
A few shells were got ; of particular interest was an ex- 
quisite Scaphella caroli and a few medium-sized Megala- 
trachcs aruanus . A few land shells were also got in forest 
land on the island. 
After dinner I took a walk round past Eagle Rock on 
the western side of the coral shelf and got a nice lot of 
Bleeding Tooth Nerites (Nerita polita) , Thais ldenerii , 
some Hahotis astnina, Clanculus atropurpureus , Limopsis 
of sorts, Cowries , San halitis varia , and a host of other 
material. The incoming tide put an end to shelling for 
that trip. I had got a kerosene tin full and two tea tins 
full; not bad going for three days work single-handed. 
On Easter Monday I got up early and had a last look 
over the rocks at low tide, struck camp, and packed up 
i eadv for the boat at 8.30 a.m. After a hearty breakfast 
T took leave of Mr. and Mrs. D. Phillips, leasees of the 
island, from whom a hut, shed or house can be had at a 
reasonable rent for camping and holiday parties. Fire- 
wood and water are on the island and plenty of fish and 
oysters can be had. Twenty-two people 'went back on the 
boat to the mainland to catch the train to town that even- 
ing. and back to work on Tuesdav morning. 
