Amerson, B. 1963 Before this however we observed and photographed sharks eating Albatross chicks who had fallen into the water while learning to fly. It was low tide at the time. Shortly after lunch I made photographs of various nesting birds on the island. June 23, 1963 - Pearl and Hermes Reef Got up this morning at 5:30 and started packing for trip to North Island. The tents, etc. were packed and ready to go by 6:30 p.m. The whaleboats (2) came to get us about 7 and by 7:30 we were ready to leave. Several large sharks appeared off the North beach and Mr. Dolph shot and killed one with a pistol. We would have liked to cut him open to find out what he had been eating but we didn't since we wanted to leave for North Island (7:30). The whaleboats made very good time until we ran into some shallow spots. We went slower then. The boat I was in even ran aground. We were able to spot North Island just as we were abeam to the Japanese wreck. As we approached the sandbar south of North Island the water got extremely shallow (low tide). The whaleboats were able to get through but at times were hitting bottom. Fred stopped at South North Island (unnamed sandspit) and banded the Masked Bobbies ( ) and Albatross (Black-footed and Leysan) ( ). I went on ahead in one boat to unload supplies and start setting up camp. We got to North Island approximately 9:30 a.m. The whaleboat was not able to pull up on shore due to shallow water, so all the material had to be waded ashore. I walked around