81. Sunday, 30 May 1948. We were passing across Temple Bay this morning at 6 A.M. when I roused. The little Alegna had travelled as gently and steadily as anybody could possibly ask and we had all slept well. A breakfast of bacon and eggs, the first dish of eggs we have had for longer than I care to think, set us up in fine condition, eventually we crossed Tem- ple and Weymouth Bays and saw Restoration Island, off the shore from Portland Roads. We pulled in and tied up at the dock in very good condition, considering its lack of use, and our stuff was put ashore, with ourselves, by nine. Fisher, who is to act as agent for us in this area, was not at the dock but a number of hard case miners, including Jack Gordon, whom we met at Cairns, were in the jetty shack recovering from a party which had developed as a result of the Wandana's call there yesterday. We had passed Wandana about nine o'clock yesterday evening. Len and George went off looking for Fisher while Van and I joined in the miners party which started again on our arrival. Finally Fisher was found and our stuff was shifted from the pier to the place selected as our camp, an aban- don army hut. We shall be comfortable here but I believe we are to move within a few days for some other place, depending on the results achieved by the hunters. They will begin to show tomorrow. The blacks we brought down do not like it very much and think they will be attacked by the local natives. They have asked for weapons but of course cannot be given any because they would almost certainly provoke a conflict in that case. The boys were very relieved to find they did not have to go out hunting tonight. Fisher and his wife I shall write about tomorrow; they invited us over to their place for a drink before supper and we shall go over later to listen to the news but I would rather wait a little longer before setting down any parti- cular impressions. The shipment from B-P and Vernon, the lad from the Queensland Museum, were both here but I have not been able to check the things sent in yet. The state- ment I asked for has not been received, which annoys me because I want to get our accounts settled and find out how we stand. Monday, 31 May, 1948. The morning and most of the afternoon were spent, by me at least, in checking the consignment of equipment and supplies which was waiting for us here, with the very sparse documents in my possession. As far as I can tell, tje tjoms received are the things ordered, with some omissions, but I have no invoice from Cairns so cannot tell what we actually have been charged with. Between supplies and equipment, which we had left at Cairns for ship- ment to us here, we have a huge quantity of baggage and its handling is some- things of a problem. Perhaps the best way of handling it is to send forward the stuff we do not expect to use in this and the following couple of camps. If we send it to Coen, we shall catch up with it again in four or five weeks, we shall be able to take advantage of any baggage train or lorry going from the port in that direction, and we shall cut down the great mass of stuff that would otherwise have to accompany us to our subsidiary camps. We were at Fisher's, as I said yesterday, for drinks and to listen to the evening news, but I am writing this now in order to clear the typewriter so that I can get letters off to B-P about Joe's insurance and one or two other things so shall not touch on them just now. First results for mammals were not good but the hunters brought in several specimens for me; my collection grows, even though I make out a balance sheet and do not leave my chair.