Field notes, v504
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1965 Bill Avery Journal (Hurricane Ridge road) July 4 drove about 5 miles up into Olympic Natl Park. No campsite here so we took a small road leading toward Elwaki(?). After about 2 miles we turned off a side road which leads to a small stream and a clearing. We set up camp, but broke it later to move to a better spot farther down the road. Here it is still light at 9 PM. Alders around the stream, Doug fir, and some sequoias making a very dense forest with dense damp undergrowth of ferns and other herbs, low alders mostly. Have seen no birds, heard chickadees and a Western flycatcher. Also a pewee and one or 2 that can't identify. No woodpeckers. Appears to have been logged once because of the cut trunks, decaying in the stream bottoms etc. Mileage 55674 June 6:95 AM July 5 July 5 - Traveled down to Port Angeles Wash and caught ferry to Victoria B.C. $10.40! Day cold, foggy to surface of ocean. Halfway across the fog began breaking and could watch birds. Saw mostly West gulls, but some cormorants, 1 pelagic for sure seen near shore on a log preening & resting. As we approached Victoria some small brown birds were seen flocking on the water with gulls. These I thought to be murres until closer approach proved them to be puffins, tufted puffins. Further in I saw some oyster catchers flying in toward sea rocks. We went from Victoria to Swartz Bay in time to catch 12 AM ferry to Vancouver.