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’.Ye arrived at oxar destination, Aeolian Bay, South. Seymour, 
about 4;30, April 8th. A tide gauge was installed the first evening, 
and the tents ws erected at the same time for the observers. The next 
several days were given over to erecting signals for the triangulation 
survey of North and South Seymour. Samples of several very interest- 
ing fossil deposits were brought back to the llALLARD. These are now 
in transit to the Museum. 
In furtherance of my desire to see more of Conway Bay, vAxioh 
we believed to be one of the best centrally located harbors and so f>! 64 rhctl 3 S Ca, 
mwBi favorable site for the establishment of the proposed laboratory, ® 
Captain Picking transferred me to the S-46, commanded by Captain Lynch. 
We steamed over to Conway Bay on the monning of April 12th and 
spent the next four days there. Several attempts were made to work 
our way inland, in the hope of establishing contact with an old, aban- 
doned plantation high up on the northwestern slope of the island, be- 
cause a spring is supposed to exist there along with a stand of banana, 
orange, and lemon trees. We found it impossible to get through to 
the higher levels because of the density of the brush and the exceed- 
ingly rough terrain. The shore party needed no persuasion to unquali- 
fiedly accept Gifford Pinchot’s description of the island as "inacces- 
sible Indefatigable". There is a nice landing beach at Conway Bay, 
but, except for one sand dune xasxxkjc, the land near by is generally 
low and densely brush covered. 
As vre learned from various residents in the Islands, the 
present rainy season has proved to be one of the wettest for many 
years. This was the report of the residents of Wreck Bay, jAcademy 
Bay, and Villamil, on south Albemarle, v/hich we visited before leaving 
the Islands. The Wittmer family, on Charles Island, voiced a similar 
comment to the captains of the submarines who visited them during our 
sojourn at South Seymour. They said that it was the wettest season 
that they had seen in the Islands since their arrival in 1932. As a 
result, we found several fairly large pools of fresh water a few 
hundred yards back from the shore line at Conway Bay. Similarly, on 
South Seymour Island, three different groups of intermittent fresh 
water ponds xvere found, but these ponds do not persist through the 
dry season, as I know from personal experience. 
The ConxAray Bay party returned to the base at South Seymour 
on the afternoon of April 16th. The next day the whole expedition 
left for James Island, where we anchored in the early afternoon. 
Here, too, was much evidence of a very wet rainy season. Barring 
unwoathered rock ^^^Slflava flows ajjiin wa g i i W i ’n t fln h gairnri "rr'"iTn *i h r i* n , the 
^ whole island was completely green. All of my other visits had been 
during the drier months, and so, on this occasion, I saw for the first 
time the xvaterfall that has been reported in a gully to the eastward 
of James Bay. The Bay anchorage is fairly open and has at times a 
heavy surf on the beach. Except fax that it lacks a permanent xvater 
supply, the land hereabouts offers some veiy fine building sites. 
