De Benedictis 1964 Feb. 11. Santa Cruz to Barrington Island, Galapagos. fairly early. Hendrickson got a batch of sea turtle eggs from Rick and after putting aside about 10 cooked up the rest. However, he couldn't get Snow's stove going and I never did find out what they taste like. Leaving for Hood (Española) Tomorrow. Feb 12. Very heavy rain about 3 P.M. later found out from Peterson that Hendrick cooked up, mumbled something about Fernandina blowing his top, Ross (Kister), thus realized where he was and went back to sleep. About 5 got up, got almost everything together and found that instead of loading at the Station, everything had to be taken to Nelson's deck. Cursed old my garbage there and we finally got off about 6:30. Rained a little in the A.H., then stayed windy, and finally cleared up, but the trip out was extremely rough, especially in the stretch from Santa Cruz to Barrington. Saw very little in this stretch, the most notable being an Albatross (Waved) just out 1/2 mi of a colony. Scattered Storm Petrels, mostly O. gracilis with a few O. kelleyi, put in only about 17 1/5 minutes on the whole crossing. Even fewer Audubon Shearwaters and Masked Boobies plus a couple of Frigatebirds. Barrington appears to be a small low, well worn island from this distance; we were too far off to tell much more about this island. Beyond Barrington it cleared up quite a bit, sunny but still rough. About 1/3 of the 18 going are sick. Birds even less