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[May 28-29 th ] all most reluctant to go out - they 
said the weather was bad and their 
boats which were on the pier were 
unavailable until others belonging to 
absent fishermen had been put in the 
water. I had made arrangements to 
with Doug Skene to go out with his 
step-father Tom Berry. However the 
latter was one whose boat was 
unavailable so I went the George 
Harrison and Frank (?). 
Gulls were on the beach in 
numbers and a few followed us 
out to the fishing grounds where 
there were quite large flocks on 
the water, which rose and fed on 
refuse thrown from the boat. Our 
first excitement was a LITTLE PENGUIN which 
we nearly ran down but dived in 
front of the boat and disappeared. Then 
the albatrosses were about us, at first 
in small numbers which increased 
during the morning until there were 
