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the trip, an old male, near a large breadfruit tree. The moon will be full
in a few days and jack-lighting will suffer. There were a few small bats
flying at dusk near our grass house. Their turn will come tomorrow night.
A small frog that calls persistently from a pandanus has aroused our curiosity
and Stan hopes to record its song.
Ken is on the ball and has organized a small house and a bath house
down the slope from our hut. Kim, my good friend and cook from Goodenough
Island, has not arrived in camp yet so Ken whipped up a proper kai, hot stew
with kidneys and meat balls. No jacking tonight. The trail STan and I
followed earlier in the day has only second or third growth trees. We will
have to go a lot further out to find arboreal marsupials. However, there
are bandicoot signs in the gardens. A full day. How satisfying to be
in the bush again!