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all over the room tearing apart our drying rack and some of the specimens 
on it. • ’ 
We reached Pearl and Hermes about 0900, and all that could he seen 
from a distance vas the waves breaking over the reef. The captain 
Baid we could not hope to get ashore for several days, and that he 
could not anchor there, so we decided to go on th Midway. 
I climbed up to the radar deck on the mast above the flying bridge 
to try to get a look at the islands as we went by. The ship was roiling 
and pitching so much it was very difficult to see much with the glasses. 
I could only see albatross on the islands, but saw one masked booby 
in the air. Only 5 of the 6 islands were visible, and only 3 have 
any vegetation on them. Only the large channel on the was visible; 
the other two did not show. There were white caps in the lagoon, 
waves breaking against the islands, and salt spray being blown over them. 
We arrived at Midway about 1700. After supper we talked with Chan 
Robbins and John Waters for a couple of hours and then all went over 
to the officers club. 
16 February 1963 
We spent most of this morning cleaning up our gear from Laysan 
and Lisianski and after yesterday's storm. All the gear in the trunk 
was soaked and some things pretty well ruined. 
This afternoon I worked on the project log and the rest of the 
crew cleaned up equipament and started om bird skins. We pi an to 
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finish our blood sampling here as the weather outlook is kind of glim for 
the next week. 
