Harbors, C.I.D 1965 Journal 104 March 11 Jarvis Island minutes of very heavy rain and strong winds we realized it wasn't going to stop for a while. By this time our headlamp cords were stretched and our lights were all sitting on the bridge of our rows and we were completely soaked and chilled. The rain lasted for about 45 minutes and must have amounted to 2 inches or so. We returned to camp, changed clothes, repaired our headlamps and went out again only to find that the blue-faced skua were extremely nervous and quick to take flight. Worse, we thrashed around in the skua until dusk dawn when everything became impossible to capture - due partly to another rain shower. In the first light of dawn Dick and I went to see a look at the "shank" channel on the east end of the island. It was loaded with black finned skua's and was almost completely calm except for some chop offshore it looked very good. When returned to camp at 9000 the surf was still piling into the west shore 10-15 feet high. Then, using a sled Dick had improvised, we hauled our raft and all of the gear on to the Southwest shore twice, loaded the raft up and then began pulling it along the south shore hunting for a channel. We couldn't find any channels that looked good. The entire bottom along the south shore was covered with algae and was sloping. Since there was no good footing, we were afraid we couldn't hold the raft in one of the channels in the face of the 8-10 foot waves that were pounding in. So we kept on going around to the east shore - about 2 miles - to the shank channel