February 25, 26, 1963 
$62-63 
XVI 
Discovery Bay, Ash Point, Greenwich Island. 
Quite a, wide open place, windy as "all get-out" while we were about, 
full of shoals; weather thick to say the least. 
Went out with survey party to Ash Point, hoping to be able to pick 
up our fish traps that had been set out the night before (February 25 ), 
but were recalled to the ship before this could be done. 
Lt. Beam, who went ashore with the survey party, undertook to check 
on the penguins there. He saw no more than 5 or 6 Gentoos, and a single 
Chinstrap. 
At this time of year, and in the weather we encountered here the 
Point is a bleak, sparsely, if at all populated place. In general, Chin- 
straps seem to predominate in the rookeries so far seen in the South Shet- 
lands, I expected to find more here. Still, we did not get around as 
anticipated because of the weather. A number of the ship's personnel 
got stranded ashore, and an equal number of Chileans spent the night 
aboard the Staten Island when the seas and wind got too high the evening 
of the 25 th. 
A dredge haul on the 26th, in 31 fms., mud bottom, at the ship's an¬ 
chorage in the Bay turned up the first sizeable brachiopod of the cruise. 
Though no larger around than a nickel, it was ever so much larger than 
the few smaller than pea-size specimens we got on just one other occa¬ 
sion; otherwise, there were a lot of tube dwelling worms; 3-^ species of 
hydroids; bryozoans; a dozen extremely thin-shelled snails, mostly broken 
or crushed; and a half dozen of the rope-like colonial ascidion such as 
we taken on several other occasions. This time we got the complete 
