The library which overlooks the sapphire waters of the bay was fill­ed with leatherbound books, some of which Logan had written himself. After finishing the house, this man turned his mind to other things.

He envisaged the Eden area and its hinterland as one of the richest areas of Australia in much the same way as Boyd had done seventy years earlier.

He studied the Snowy Mountains area and drew up a plan to gener­ate hydro-electric power to help the development of the region. When these plans and feasibility studies were presented to the parliamentar­ians, they were met with prejudice, as the politicians were involved in other similar schemes which would have been disadvantaged by growth in the south.