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sunderlings. Pound k dead horned puffin on beach Robbins retrieved 5 of them 
for skinning. Bob Clernm reported one still alive on Kure I. this after- 
noon. 
Jan. 28: Saw McDaniel this AM. I have been given space on a AEWBAKRONPAC 
flight for 9 am Wed. Clearances from DESERSET Have not come through. Chan 
took me in to meet Cmdr. Bentall, the Executive Officer, although dubrious 
about us staying on P-H at this seasons. I cleared my flight back to 
Barber’s Ft. thru MATS and AEWBARBOEPAC. 
This afternoon Lt. Me Daniel flew myself, Chan and John Waters over to 
Pearl Hermes• We had mash-tes & photograph aboard but the westner was much 
too bad to get any good pictures. 
We saw q.i 1 of the islands in the chain, and it wasn!t too promissing. 
North Island had a good albatross colony, about JO seals and at least 3 sea 
turtles. The reef is very wide outside of the island and has only one or 
two possible island on a very calm day. It would he almost simpossible to 
approach the island thru the lagoon. Hie is a long thin sandspit south of 
the island. 
Southeast Island is alamost broken into two by a large lagoon. There 
is only a single sandspit connecting the two halves on the inner side. 
There seems to be considerable standing water on the island, almost pond- 
size Hie observation tower actually a radar target, is still standing byut 
not especially can farting. The outside reef is very close in to the island 
and large waves could break onto the island with little loss of force. 
Hie main entrance to the lagoon looks very good. Hie sea was calm enough 
for a landing to have been made today. 
This afternoon late we walked around about 2/3 of the island on the beach. 
