Wed. Mar 10. Tea at Ernie Stevens' home, 3 p.m. accompanied Mrs. Laurie, electrical engineer to Kuranda power station, We hunted bat in tunnel for the 3-foot power pipes. Two species very nervous hard to get: Phrolophus and Scoterinus? Took 2 y. each. Left Van to Mossman by bus Thursday a.m. That night I skinned the 4 bat. George Prothero bought an Isoodon, a car had killed at 8 p.m. Injected it with formalin for a.m. skinning. Fri. Mar 12. Skinned the bandicoot. My long looked-for tour airout for Townsville. Sat half to Van at Mossman. (We have been unravelling rope - a tedious process - to get Tow.) Talk before Cairns Legacy in Evening on "Exploring + Expeditions". Sat. Mar 13. A trip with Mrs. & Mrs. Hunter to Basin water in p.m. Busy in a.m. reorganising gear in Mrs. & fully ready for Scent Friday trip. Sun. Mar 14. Packed picked bat in a.m. Left to lunch with Mrs. Ernie Stevens & in p.m. to test car at Hartleys Creek, 25 miles up to coast towards Mossman. The bats were cut 2 - scatland - in a 30cc car in a fissure in the juncture (with Taptasous). Mon. Mar. 15. With Abba & Main Roads to Mossman via Port Douglas. Lunched at Mossman. Changed to "utility" driven by Mr. Davies. First camp when lowland "four" changes to scrub at 700 feet. "Lookout" at about "Top" at 1400. Thereafter fairly level. Scrub lasts about a mile, then Devil Devil Creek, a headwaters creek of the Mitchell. Stayed with Mr. & Mrs. Hanna, dairy farmers. They claim Hyperpylymorder on their property - at mayis 2 3 c.m. Davies took me all around the uplands (Layamto to west brown) - to Rummula - Miss & her friend from Parkarren. - to Juletten - to see salt