and a throe-foot nurse shark in it« Three days ago Tom and I shot up a 
roll of tests on the new Ektaohrome I 611111 commercial film and sent them off 
yesterday asking for a quick report. We used five filter combinations , 
beginning with 40R; dropping to SOR; then 30R, lOM; then 20Rj, 20M; and finally 
30M, lOR. With a variation of exposures from F:3 to Fs 6.6 we should come 
up with an answer. We shot these tests at our old reeflet where we took 
many pictures in years past, but we will not work out there. Something 
unhappy has overtaken the once charming spot. Perhaps the extra sediment 
in the water from dredging during the building of the canals at Lyford Cay 
is to blame. At any event, the sponges all have vanished; the gorgonian 
skeletons stand on the tops of coral mounds, bleak and dead; most of the 
fish have gone, and I saw no anemones, and of course, no cleaner shrimps. 
Oddly enough our shooting pens of 1958 are almost as we left them. The 
metal appears to be in near perfect condition, but the wooden parts are 
worm-riddled and crumbling. I wonder in what other part of the ocean it 
would be possible to leave frail structures like that on the bottom and 
find them in place three years later. It is very dismal, though -- these 
skeletons of angle-iron enclosures with bits of algae-encrusted screen 
swaying to the current, and in the background the dying coral heads and the 
tattered gorgonians. I know how Rip Van Winkle must have felt. 
With some foreboding I sent Tom out to learn whether all of the reeflets 
in Lyford Bay had gone the way of our particular little coral formation. 
"When I returned from town Monday (l had gone on a bootless errand to see 
