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- on the beach with [Ian McTaggart] Cowan chasing after mollusks [molluscs]
+ I trying my luck for trout for supper. Got
enough small cutthroat for one meal. About
2 pm began beach drive. Could speed along so
soon arrived at the end of forest. Here we found
an ideal campsite under a wind swept spruce.
Set up tent + made ourselves comfortable. Set
no traps. [Ian McTaggart] Cowan shot a deer (w/ the .22) + Paul [Joslin]
was highly entertained by its copious parasites esp. [especially]
nematodes in cecum - here also a cup of sand.
Magnus' fluke in liver so must be appropriate snail
in ponds. As twilight descended [Ian McTaggart] Cowan and I went
along the beach, pulling up aggates [agates], noting many
otter tracks, flock of semip sandp [semi-palmated sandpipers], small flock of
brant [geese]. No [word crossed out] Brilliant sunset. Mouse skinning bee.
Caught 50 last night - kept us going to midnight
May 23 [1960]
Cloudy. [Ian McTaggart] Cowan + I walked far south looking for
[illegible word] Lake but no luck. Long dunes running into the
spruce - [illegible word] forest made going difficult. High
population of millipedes. Annilimia[?] type without
dry white or white blotched forms. Staggered
the long way back to the beach, laden down
with large Jap [Japanese] glass balls. Paul [Joslin] found some too +
found [illegible word crossed out] use for his balls by sitting on them!
Venison for supper. Campfire. Peaceful.
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May 24 [1960]
Clear. [Ian McTaggart] Cowan hiked off south to the martin [marten] traps
(Paul saw a martin [marten]). Here all mice adults, 1 one with
young embryos, and the heaviest mice so far. At Tow Hill
paused while [Ian McTaggart] Cowan went out around the basaltic
plug. Young Varied thrush, W. [winter] Wren with young. Peter [Henson]
reported large colony of cormorants + falcon on cliffs
but [Ian McTaggart] Cowan saw nil. Raven nest with young.
Didn't know whether expected at Bensons [Henson's] for
supper so turned up in mid afternoon to see. We
were. So tiedied [tidied] up by puddle side, [Ian McTaggart] Cowan putting
scruffy us to shame with his blazer, pressed [underlined]
trousers + shave. Sure Peter [Henson] couldn't have cared
less. Bad connection in battery caused annoyance
+ missed out seeing McIntosh meadows, 1 mi [mile] E. [east] of
RCAF [Royal Canadian Air Force] station.
Ben [crossed out] Peter Hensen [Henson] showed us proudly his swan slides
(mostly trumpeter), Brant, etc. Long into evening hear-
ing Peter [Henson] swap hunting exploites [exploits] with [Ian McTaggart] Cowan.
Finally drove east to park on beach for night.
May 25 [1960]
Clear, heavy dew. [Ian McTaggart] Cowan dewey in morning.
Quick breakfast of mush then met Peter [Henson] to
go to rocky point to West of Tow Hill. Here spent
first half of day looking for marine life
Paddled around area for most of day.
Another supper at the Hensons. About midnight left
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