Hackmer, C.D. 1965 Journal 29 February 4 Bake Island packed out - 11:30 20 Blue-faced Cookies were blood sampled, 13 landed and 42 were returns. The club contained about 150 birds, the majority of which had been landed and marked the night before. Most of these birds flushed quickly. February 5 Bake Island We got up at 6 am broke camp and began carrying the gear 4 mile across the island to the south shore where the surf was better. All gear was on the south beach by 7:15. The first boat load took off at 7:30 without much difficulty. The second boat got scared its coming in and we had to dump all of the water out before it could be loaded. In going out we missed a wave on our count and, it peaked up to about 9 feet and broke on us about 15 feet from shore. The raft reared up and came down on top of us upside down. Gear was floating all over the beach with people running around frantically grabbing it. I grabbed one ammunition box just as it sank but still didn't have time to move before the undertow pulled my feet out from under me just before another 9 foot wave broke on top of me. The box was so heavy I could hardly, now it seems I was hanging on to a water cooler, too. Each big wave that came in shoved me a few feet further up the beach until finally, after about five of them, I was far enough up so that I could climb the crate cooler high and dry and then was