Gould, P. J. 1963--At Sea 1 July 29, 1963--Honolulu, Oahu Island, U. S. A. (Waikiki) Bob Fleet and I arrived last night about 6:10 p.m. at the International airport via United. We stayed at the Waikiki International Hotel (2310 Kuhio Ave.). The island is beautiful green, cloud capped, temperate. The three most obvious (=common?) birds are all introduced species: Indian Myna, Bared Dove and English Sparrow. These are present wherever you go. We went out to Pearl Harbor and arrived at Nimitz Gate about 9:00 a.m. after phoning mdr. Doyle of our intentions to get gate passes, etc. He promised to have us met at the gate. When we arrived we again phoned Doyle to let him know we were there and he said he was sending someone out to get us through. By 12:30 p.m. we were tired of waiting so we again put through a call to Doyle. He was out to lunch but the man we talked to promised to call us back when he found out about our problem. In about 10 minutes he called back and apologized for our being held up. The blame was variously shoved around and ended in "draw". A Mr. LaHona picked us up and escorted us out to the ( ) where we met various members of the crew including the captain and several men from DESERET (including Mr. Bushman). It appears that we have clearance to embark on the ship, but not to board. So we phoned Maryanna Smellow (collect) and asked her to check m our orders. After coffee and small talk, and no luck in contacting Mr. Fry at Supply in Pearl City. Mr. Bushman took us out, got us temporary passes and left us off at a spot where we devoured a very late (4:00 p.m.) lunch. My first impression is that no one really knows what is going on. The ship leaves August 1 for the grid area and we hope to get a lot of collecting