FRI. 13 MAR. 1953 ARRIVED AT BRISBANE. UP AT 4:AM. COULD SEE CAPE MORETON LIGHT + PILOT BOAT. PILOT CAME ON IN WHALE BOAT MANNED BY 6 OR CREW. SQUALL COMING DOWN + WATER CHOPPY. BACK TO BED UNTIL SIX. BEAUTIFUL SUNRISE + GOOD VIEW OF THE GLASS HOUSE MOUNTAINS. ABOUT 12 TAEGRS FOLLOWING SHIP. ALSO A FEW OF THE LARGE DARK PETRELS IN MORETON BAY. BACK TO BED UNTIL 7:30. BIRDS SEEN COMING UP BRISBANE RIVER; LARGE TERN; BL.+ WH. COR- MORANT, SMALL BLACK CORMORANT, RED-BILLED GULL, WH.-BREASTED SEA EAGLE. DOCKED ABOUT 10:30. INTERVIEWED BY REPORTER FOR EVEN- ING PAPER + PHOTOGRAPHED. SAME REPORTER IN 1948. MET BY MR. BROOKS (FATHER OF GEORGE B. IN CAIRNS) + MR. WILLIAMS (BUNTING AGENT). DID NOT HAVE TO OPEN BAGS. MR. BROOKS TOOK US TO LENNON'S HOTEL (GEN. McARTHUR'S HDQTS. DURING WAR). AFTER LUNCH WENT TO QUEENSLAND MUSEUM TO VISIT MR. MACK DON VERNON, JACK WOODS, MALCOLM —. MR. MACK SHOWED ME ALL THE LATEST WORK ON CASES + DISPLAYS (IT IS VERY FINE!). NEW LIGHTS. HAD TEA. DON + I TALKED UNTIL 6:15. THEN TO HOTEL FOR DINNER. ALSO INVITED CECILY SANDERCOCK (SHE HAS LEFT MUSEUM + IS TO BE MARRIED APRIL 11 TO AN OLD FRIEND — HAS PAW-PAW FARM. TO ROOM + TALKED. THEN OUT TO SEE MR. & MRS. SANDERCOCK (MET IN 1948). HEITH JARROTT CALLED UP + WE HAD LONG TALK ABOUT POSSIBILITY OF NATIONAL PARKS IN BRITISH N.G. TOOK TRAM HOME ABOUT 11:30.