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care of fingers even better in the futui^. 
Since it was afternoon with the enn aiasked by thin clouds I HOved to 
the veatern edge of o\xr reef let where the aneraones are, and photographed 
aotae of the cleaners in action on the big-eyes, hoping that there would be 
sufficient light, lliese round anemones carpet the entire western edge of 
our out-cropping, and at alnKJSt any hour of the day one can see big-eyes 
or conies or an occasional hind either resting on the aneTOnes (a sort of 
feather bed) or hanging just above them. The shrimps tlmt live in the 
anemones appear at first glance to be yuoatanicus, but some of them are 
so small as to be all but invisible. 1 should not be at all surprised if 
there were several species represented. Certainly they all spend much 
tin« cleaning fish. Bometic^s they work land in glove with a neon goby 
or two. I have seen goby and shrimp urder the same gill cover at the sartm 
time -- and no bickering. I had not realized before that the yuoatanicus 
is such an active cleaner. These fellows are busy with custon^rs imost of 
the tin®. Before we leave I shall have to sacrifice the lives of a few 
of them — birt I shall put off tiie day as long as possible. 
The big-eyes appear to be very conscious of territory. Each fellow 
keeps to his own premises. When one oversteps a boundary each fish makes 
Jerlsy aidewiee motions with its head, and its normal red body goes to 
splotchy silver stripes, on a red ground. And to add emphasis its nose 
and forehead turn chartreuse. That should be signal enough for ai^ody. 
July 8 . Sometimes all things conspire — but not necessarily for good. 
This is especially true in working undersea, in ny estinmtion. There are 
so Esany things over which one has no control, so raoiy cog wheels and so 
