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Gill, Douglas E.
1964
locked up so we drove over to Dr. Ely's. We looked at the skin from the
At-Sea cruise and they were really poor, even I could do better than most
of them. We then went up to Coconut Crater to see if we could find
the small colony of breeding Fairy Terns. We went down a steep cinder
glade out to the sliff over the ocean. There we saw a few Wedgetails,
"Noddies, Frigates, and Brown Boobies, then a pair of "Transvestite"
Terns came in and floated overhead. Warren mentioned to me that two of
the crew on the Townsend Cromwell were on the Anton Bun when Frank was.
In the stand of trees where the Fairy Terns had nested, Warren and I
chased an odd scolding and finally concluded it was probably a young
Mynah. We returned to the hold after dark and decided to go to the movies.
Turning on the readio I discover Mabler's Fourth and I was ecstatic.
Apparently everyone was waiting for me while I was enjoying my Mahler.
In a friendly wrestle with Larry over the radio we were pushed into the
pool by the others, much to the mirth of many of the guests. After
changing Larry and I joined Warren and Dick at the Colonian House
Cafeteria for dinner then stood in line at the movie house for 40 minutes.
The
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