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Passed bare, isolated Lookout Point at 9. a.m. rose
bad dunes beyond but less developed, giving way to fringe of
margoves.
Rounded, bare Peak ahead. Turtle Bay
passed at 9.50. Passed inside Newton Isl. at 2. p.m.
Saddle Hill clst 1.30 pm.
Mt Stickey Range; Saddle Hill Ranges (1400-1500)
and the range NW of Jeannie R., 1300 to 2000 feet all
appear to be horizontally bedded sandstone.
Noble Island, N. south of Jeannie R., has produced
tin. A stop has been made in Warson Isl.
to test for Wolfram (Cr.god).
Never prominent features are Abbey Peak, North Bay
Point, and Cape Helvills (no altitude given on
17 m.p.i. map.)
Boy pilot says to wait in truck this year from
Corktown to Starks. Road had a good deal of down
tinta. Creeks fairly numerous but dry quickly.
Starks has some salt pans. It is a cattle station.
In late afternoon we stopped by a temporarily abandoned
foot which had run aground on Schweitzer's Bay, a
"dead" reef between the outer Barrier and the mainland.
The water (a little after low tide) was about a foot
deep, dotted with masses of green seaweed. We
four rowed over to it -- spent half an hour wading
about. "Scrub clams" were common. They were probably
from 6" to 12" long. Bass also many butter-stars,
black sea cucumbers, deep blue starfish, ten
starfish with red spots, a variety of bivalves and
univalves, including Trochus-like shells. Collected
a few shells as souvenirs.
Sunap.
18.
We must have rounded Cape Helvills at about
10-11 p.m. as we ran into quite a chop of sea. At 12.15
the motor stopped for a few I looked out to see dim
hills due south, which may have been Cape Helvills
still. At 4.30 the motor stopped a few minutes
I again went to deck. Then saw again hills
to S., which were either the Thinders Isles or the
Bathurst Ranges. All night we held a
westerly course.