Patelka 1948 Aug. 28 Prisoners Harbor, Santa Cruz I. to make sure we understood their regulations. We left the mainland at about 1 and took 2 hours to reach Prisoners' Harbor, on the north side of the island, at the west end of the neck. The sea was exceptionally calm, and the trip was most pleasant. We saw a group of 4 porpoises, which followed us for a short while, also several sea lions near Santa Cruz Island, and numerous sharks loafing at the surface, ranging probably from 4 to 5 feet in length in most cases. They were especially common about 5 to 10 miles offshore. We noted a group of 3 Marbled Godwits flying overhead, several large groups of shearwaters (all but one lone individual, a sooty), a group of phalaropes pink-footed, on the water surface, feeding (apparently northerns), an Ashy Petrel (not dead certainly, a lone bird, but almost certainly this), scattered Western gulls, occasional cormorants near the mainland and again near the island, and a dragon-fly (!) about half-way to the island, heading toward the mainland. On arriving at the dock at Prisoners' Harbor, we piled our gear on the dock-end, after finding no one around the houses or barns near the dock, and decided to walk