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LIDICKER
1990
Bermuda Trip
6-13 Oct
Flew to Bermuda via NYC to participate in
BIOSIS Board of Trustees meeting. Stayed at Bermuda
Bio. Station for Research which is in St. George's
Parish on the east end of the island complex across
a small channel (Ferry Reach) from the airport.
Meetings continued through Oct 10. On Oct. 11
Harmless Lily came within 50 mi. to 5 islands
and stopped all forms of public transportation. We
walked to Ferry Pt. and then to St. George's in pm.
On Oct. 12 we took bus to Dockyard and we drove W
ad Lights, after visiting the Maritime Museum walked
to Somerset Bridge, passing through the Azalea Wingate
Saw cherry. Took ferry to Hamilton at dusk. On
Oct. 13, visited Zoo, aquarium + museum +
flew to NYC at ~ 14:45 and back to California
arriving at 22:45 PT (02:45 Bermuda time).
In afternoon of Oct. 9 our group was taken by Staten
Island to Nonesuch Island. There we saw places on
the island and adjacent inlets where cactus (Bermuda
Petal) breed, including an artificial nursery made
by David Wingate - the resident naturalist & wonderer
of the Nonesuch Island Sanctuary. The docks area is
Dec. for nesting + the eggs are laid from laying eggs
+ raising young. We also saw clipp when Yellow-billed
Tropicbirds nest ("long-tails") in the summer. Byron
Watson said he might have seen one fly into a cliff.