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new earn shaft and a rmi cylinder head. 
But all things eventually straighten out. The boys and I put up a 
polyethylene tent aM workshop, under a cover of sea grape trees in the 
back yard, built a worktable, shelved the thii^ with liquor boxes, set 
up the drill press, ard the other necessary tools, piped in electricity, 
and we were in business. We have built underwater lights now, completed 
the still camera bousing, laade underwater tests (on the 19th)} the car is 
repaired, the boys have been collecting. Soon our days will be underwater. 
June gist . Three f\jll days of rein. The weather i»ople say we are in 
the midst of an easterly wave. I hope that it begins to wave off in some 
other direction before long. For one thing, I have been set for undersea 
tests with the motion picture and still cameras both at the ready. But 
no sun. The 16-mi film I have (Ektachrome Comti^rclal) is too slow for 
sbsoting without the help of full sun. Stills could be shot completely 
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with flash, I suppose, birt the flash is intended only for fill-in. So ve 
have held our fire. Also the natives insist that being out in an open 
boat in the midst of one of these thiaader stonns (there is a good deal 
of electrical activity all day long) is not a good idea. Several islard 
fisberiren are killed by listening every year. 
The reef let a in Lyford Bay are retreating every year. Before many 
years nothing will be left of them, I’d imagine. In * 6 l we had to move 
closer to the mouth of the bay to find a suitable spot, and this had been 
an outward move from the time before. We find now that the coral heads 
of ’61 are masses of half -dead corel, the plumes of the gorgonlans are 
