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equipment, and stowed our gear. Larry Huber and X are in the 
crew's 
quarters, Pete and Doug Hackman are In the Chief’s quaters, and Fred 
and Bob Long, the botanist are in the officers quarter.* . We waited 
around for toe ship to leave at 10OO hours. Wives and girl freends -■ 
were visiting on board before the men folic left for thiB 60 day cruise. 
Finally we left, saying good bye to Dr. Ely, Hawaiian coordinator. 
Getting; the boat out of its mooring was quite a project, involving at 
least one, tug. We were on our way, finally. WE looked fear birds on 
Cwr wy out of the harbor and out into the sea . I* saw Black-necked 
Stilts, Koddy Terns, Sooty Terns, and Wedge-tailed Shearwaters . It 
was a beautiful evening and a very calm sea with a minimum of rolling. 
The captain came up. to talk to as a bit about the boat and the trip. 
Bob became woozy and went below but the rest of us were in fine sliape. 
After everyone else left I had a long talk about the trip and ray past 
birding and banding experiences with Doug Hackman. He is a real neat 
fellow, for whom I haven't found good adjectives. . Finally I hit 
the sack and had a relatively restless night's sleep. 
Jime_2— I have to conserve paper since I don't have that much left, 
novel lie woke us up at 7 o'clock. I dressed and joined the others in 
the wardroom for breakfast. The wardroom is a small room with a cloth 
taolec lathed table in the center with six cha irs . around . Only officers 
set here and it feels real exclusive. We broke our fast with the captain 
this morning , for example. Alter that we went up to the flying bridge, 
which is the highest deck above the ship for at sea observation. Agdin 
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it's an extremely calm day and the magnitude of lurching is maximal . 
Sooty Terns and Wedge- tall Shearwaters were flying by. Finally a 
