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possibly our iiei^bor saw only that part of the fish. She says no, she 
can see better than that. Figments. 
June 29 . Determined to have a full day of shooting todsy. The hermit 
crabs to be the subjects, Htad not tried out our diffuser — this year 
we had made a very large one, using a translucent poly*vinyl material 
that appeared to the eye to be about the ri^t thing. Twelve by twenty 
feet, fastened at the ends with 1 x 2 's twelve feet long, with anchor ropes. 
Fota^ it to be extremely difficult to ImMle under water. When it was 
unrolled it billowed like a sail, and had pull enough to nove ota* cement 
blocks. And then we looked at the shadow it cast... black as ink. Aw 3 
that was the end of that. Rolled it up, carted it back home, and made 
another one — twelve by twelve feet this time — of the sas» imterial 
I have used in other years. It is some sort of poly coirfbined with rubber, 
ai^ has a frosty, groui^ -glass look to it. I had thought it a little thin 
when we used it last time. But it is tough. Trouble is that this stuff 
is only forty inches vide so we had to make the diffuser in overlapping 
strips, hoping that they wouldn't come open at the seams in use. Took 
it back to the shooting area. Light too far gone to do ary shooting. 
Jrme 30 . Very pretty day. Got going without trouble. The very big 
hermit crab will not perform. He will not dig in the sand the way his 
fellows do, and he is uninterested in aiy other kind of food. All he cares 
about is travel, and the only thing that stops him is a solid wall. I 
tried him with several pieces of minnow. He knocks them away with his big 
claws and stomps off. 
