Koford Journal 12 February 1964 To Hood Island, Galapagos Is. Rain & wind night. Left Acod Bay with 17 others 0700 by patrol boat for Hood Is. Wet trip into waves. Arrived 12:15 p.m. at Oto. Lacey. We set up camp N side peninsula. To S, colonies of cracked & blue faced boobies (former mostly w. eggs, latter w. nestlings), and some forked tailed gulls (eggs + young). All approach- able to touching distance or nests. Marked boobies nearer shore. Area of nesting open, tho w protecti smoke-gum shrub common, and a 6' shrub at intervals. Boats probably aid in keeping shrubs small & low, thus favouring nesting area. A low smell-loved spiny shrub clearly bound. Boa lino common; some small groups, & little large boa's bobbing & thrusting when approached. Marine iguanas common, & have verdigris green dorsally, with dull red sides, strikingly different color than at Santa Cruz. Boobies strike at them when iguanas approach closely. Iguanas also close to sea line, the red tropic w/ color, gulls. Many small iguanas; none as large as on station on Santa Cruz. | On camp, mostly Cryptocarpus buxifolia, heavily browsed by goats. | Within 1/2 hr. after landing, Opayefuna shot kitt 2 & 2 min. camp area, with pistol. Kid 07, about 20 lbs., bay color. 1 rd. + no emb., some milk nipples, no end. follicles, no glands. 1 rd. & boy, white blaze side, one udder full, 3" glands. I also saw brown ed. & min. camp. The stomach had about 25% green material; whole leaves shrubs & twigs to 2" x 1/4". Cryptoc. twigs included: some mesuunini fat; otherwise no deposits. Apparently more app. shrubs than Berington; zoo goats fatter, density high, higher prop. G + & kids, four black, some with white marks (rare on B). More buxifolia & closer, taller, so even in red leafless state (now), hard cannot see animals at distance. | about 1/4 mi. E of camp, on N shore, an opuntia tree, 18" L.b.h. No pads or branches below 6',