APRIL The S/S Pioneer Star entered the fringes of cyclone Henrietta, one of the largest cyclones in Australian meteorological history, on April 3. April 4 and 5 were spent making for the Queensland coast in very rough seas with winds up to force 10 on the Beaufort scale. The ship passed to the south of the slow-moving double eye of the cyclone; at one time the ship was only 160 miles from the center of the southern eye. The Moreton Island lighthouse was a welcome sight at dawn on April 6. Moreton Island is the base for one of Australia's well known shore stations for the catching of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae), one of whose populations migrates along the east coast of Australia. Marlow (1961) describes the marking of humpback whales which begins in September at the end of the catching season from shore stations. As the ship turned south into Moreton Bay the fantastic shapes of the Glasshouse Mountains were clearly visible to starboard on the mainland to the west. Low-lying Bribie Island hugs the coast to star- board. Here that a remnant population of the great grey kangaroo WAS INTENSIVELY STUDIED, AND (THE LIFE OF THE TANGAROO, 1966) (Macropus giganteus) has been the subject of a book with superb photographs AND KAY BREEDEN WAS by Stanley Breeden, and Kay, formerly Chief Photographer of the Queensland Museum. We docked at noon at the port of Brisbane which lies several winding miles up the Brisbane River. April 7 to 11 were spent in Brisbane. The Queensland Museum, under the directorship of Jack Woods (George Mack, EARLY the former Director, died in 1964), was visited on several occasions. Grierson and I visited the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, and Grierson was kindly allowed to photograph the koalas by the owner, Mr. Reid. On April 10 Mr. and Mrs. James R.P. Fearnley drove us to the Mt. Glorious area just west of