Benedict 1964 250 March 15 on board "Golden Bear", Cocos Is. to San Diego, Calif. almost white below. Floating on the water. Began seeing the floating red crabs again - "pleuronodes" - in sweltering numbers than [illegible] up. Some what surprised at how few shore based birds are around. Noon position 21° 54.8'N, 108° 57.4'W. Course 308°. March 16 really "cold" during the evening and had to wear a sweat shirt AND a jacket in the A.M. Very windy and choppy. went out with Kieste for about 6 to 7 but not much around. About 15 minutes after we got out gulls began flying out from the nearby islands off Magdalena Bay, Baja Calif. It was too dark to identify most of them (about 50). I saw 3-5 definite Westerns (pink-legged), as many Sooty Gulls and at least 1 Calif. Gull. Off in the distance there were 4-5 Maras Shearwaters. Porpoises were abundant here and came quite close to the ship. They had or long thin beak > and a high dorsal fin c ½ down the back. The back was dark olivaceous brown; the tail + fins the same color. The belly and side were white with a dark strip from the eye to the fin. The top of the snout was pale and some of them had a white top of the head, the color diffusely set off, @ a diffuse white Y, the stem pointing forward to the forehead, a small dark spot to the head. This pattern appearing in = proportion. If all the group we saw were separate we saw 150+ of them, no other species. No flying