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Two oubjccU hail ts-eii discussed with a 
considerable amount ol expectancy. and 
even up lo the time when the vessel ar¬ 
rived nl liie camping-ground there was no 
I it t. o inlere-t displayed—unfortunately, 
ho! Ii fell fur short of wlmt we lind been 
looking for wind lo. I allude lo deep-sen 
fishing for trumpeter, anil dredging for 
sheila. We were unable lo do anything 
in these two matters on account of a 
strung X.W. wind which sprang up the 
day alter our flrrjvnl, and Idea straight 
into the liny, making the water loo rough 
tor any comfort in an open Iwat. Many 
prepared for truinpeler tiahing. hud taken 
(leep-sen linos, and it is only nalurnl that 
some disappointment was fell when il was 
seen that this fine sport could no! be hud. 
Fishing from the rucks with io;t* and hand- 
lines occupied the attention of a few, bul. 
seines and grab-alls weie used throughout 
the stay, and it was with these we caught 
sufficient fish to form several meats. As 
previously staled, flounders were the prin¬ 
cipal fish caught in the seine, native sal¬ 
mon were also fairly numerous; while in 
the grab-alls, native salmon and silver 
trumpeter were chiefly taken—this, is 
without taking into consideration num¬ 
bers of gummy sharks, which caused great 
havoc in the nets. 
The list of fish taken during the trip 
is a very fair one. and is as follows; — 
Native salmon, real truinpeler, silver 
truinpeler. barracoota, mullet, flathend, 
rock-cod, ling, and flounder. Non-edible 
varieties—Poi eiipine fish. cuttle fish, oe- 
lonus, several kinds of parrot fish, and 
leather jackets. 
Crayfish nets had been taken, and crur- 
fiah were caught from the rocks off shore. 
Our leader seemed disappointed at these 
not being caught very freely in Meredith's 
Fishery. He said that usaallv a score o' 
them could lie caught in lees than half an 
hour. At Sleepy Bay. however, enough 
were taken to gratify those who had the 
pleasure of carrying 1 hem some three or 
tour miles hark to camp. Indeed, some of 
these crustacean* would cling to the bait 
on fishing lines, and when pulled close to 
the surface n quick jerk would send them 
fixing over the locks. 
It may lie said that the shells were con¬ 
spicuous by their absence. Our leader 
said that only a fortnight before shells 
were very plentiful on the benches; but 
il was seen that very high tides had cover¬ 
ed them with'sand before our arrival. A 
reiiiarknb'e illustration of the provisions 
of nature in affording protective colouring 
to so many creature-, all the world over 
was seen in the case of a shell, Coniinella 
lineolatn, which is usually of a dull while 
with heavy markings oi hluisli-ldtivk. but 
was here frequent :,v -ecu to he orange in 
colour, mulching the red granite on whi. h 
it lived. There was not much either for 
the geologist on account of the country's 
formation I icing of one kind, red granite 
lining Hu; prevailing stone. extending 
across the peninsula, from Oyster Hay to 
the South l’aciffc Ocean. This granite 
has a very handsome appear nice, and H 
coarse grained, composed of felspar, 
quartz, and mica. At the summit of one 
oi tlie mountain* a fine, smoky quartz 
cry*ta' was obtained. On Oyster Hay side 
ol the peninsula the beaches are formed 
of coaise granite gravel; but at Wine¬ 
glass Hay, on the ocean .side, the beach is 
pure white, and composed of powdered 
quartz only. The country there is very 
barren and worthless for agricultural 
purposes, as may lie seen by the illustra¬ 
tions. 
Bird-life is always a noticeable feature 
of a locality, and. in dealing with this 
it would lie hard for me to imurove upon 
Mr. A. L. Butler’s report to the meeting 
of the club on May f . . . “After pass¬ 
ing Denison Canal, we observed the fol¬ 
lowing birds on the mud-fiats, and flying 
about in the narrows of Blackman's Bay: 
—Silver and Pacific trulls and White- 
breasted Cormorants, Black and White- 
bicasted Oyster-catchers, and a fair num¬ 
ber of Gantlets, who .for the most part, 
were engaged in procuring their morning 
repast of fish. Bass Straits tern were fair¬ 
ly numerous, some fishing and others on 
the sand-banks and mud-flats resting from 
their labour* necessary to procure them a 
sufficient breakfast. It was here noticed 
that Hie terns and cormorant* when rest¬ 
ing on the mud-flats were all heading up 
to windward. 
"In passing may be mentioned the ex¬ 
ceedingly graceful flight of this tern, es¬ 
pecially ’ when “he goes a-hunting.” You 
may have noticed him yourself flying at 
about :20ft. to 30ft. trom the surface of the 
water with his head down, and his beak 
nearly at right angles to his body. All at 
once iie*ees a small fish a foot or so below 
the surface, then, like an arrow from the 
bow, down lie comes, and so true is his 
aim that I have only seen him miss once 
in 3G or 10 times. . . . Having arrived 
at Coles Hay, by the time we were set¬ 
tled it was too lute in the evening for any 
but nocturnal birds to be met with. Of 
these, we were favoured with but two, for 
whilst we were having tea the Boobook 
Owl continually uttered his mournful 
cry, “nin-jioik, mo-pork.” and Inter in the 
evening the peculiar mewing noise made 
by the Spotted Owl was also heard, and 
the bird was located in some ti-tree grow- 
