Paul DeBenedictis 1961 Jan 15 Memories and recollections - Alex trip. (Dec 21) Carrying crabs + a pretty blue-legged swimming crab, with a [illegible]-shaped carapace, were fairly abundant. We also saw a smaller crab on the hard sand that ran actively about, and many crab tracks and burrows. When we got back to the hotel it was getting dark and everyone was milling about seeing if someone would cook dinner. I tried to, but after I got started about half of the others went off night driving, leaving me with no white gas for the stove. So half of the remaining people went out on the beach and shot off fireworks and the other half sat down on the patio of the hotel and watched the display, and even offered themselves as a target. After a small war, we all decided to go gecko and frog hunting in the cocoanut grove across the way. This area is a grove with a considerable undergrowth and with a few ditches, often filled with water. In the daytime I have seen Cuemidophorus (lineatissimus) in the bushes along the edge, and the rocks filled with Glenosaurus are right by the edge. Our collects at night here by tramping around with a lantern, avoiding the ditches and stinging nettle, looking for Hyla smithi on the damp (dew-moised) fronds of the smaller palms. We saw only a few Hyla and no geckos, so we quickly changed to coconut poaching. After each of us (there were