Before this however we observed and photographed sharks eating 
Albatross chicks who had fallen into the water while learning to 
fly. It was low tide tt the time. Shortly after lunch I made 
photographs of various nesting birds on the island. 
June 25, 1963 - Pearl and Hermes Reef 
Got up this morning at 5:50 and started packing for trip to 
Horth Island. The tents, etc. were packed and ready to go by 
6:50 p.m. The whaleboats ( 2 ) care to get us about 7 and by 7:50 
we were ready to leave. Several large sharks appeared off the 
North beach and Mr. Dolph shot and killed one with a pistol. We 
would have liked to cut him open to find out what he had been 
eating but we didn’t since we wanted to leave for North Island (7 : 50 ) . 
The whaleboats made very good time until we ran Into some shallow 
spots. We went slower then. The boat I was in even ran aground. 
We were able to spot North Island just as we were abeam to the 
Japanese wereck. As we approached the sandbar south of North 
Island the water got extremely shallow (low tide). The whaleboats 
were able to get through but at times were hitting bottom. Fred 
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stopped at South North Island (unnamed sandspit) and bonded the 
Masked Bobbies ( ) and Albatross (Black-footed and Leys an) 
( ). I vent on ahead in one boat to unload supplies and start 
setting up camp . We got to North Island approximately 9:30 a.m. 
The whaleboat was not able to pull up on shore due to shallow 
water, so all the material had to be waded ashore. I walked around 
