Hoeman, Vincent D. 1964 11 March 1--Grit, Warren and I go to top again and talk to University of Hawaii botanist Charles Lamoureux on crater rim about the tobacco and he points out a native plant (natives unrecorded by Richardson and Fisher 1950). He collected specimens. Says some tobacco in stomachs of some of thirteen rabbits they shot, though it's supposedly poisonous. Boat comes for us and we really get wet swimming to it with our gear. Warren pays $15 when we get back. We see Brazilian cardinal 35' up nest in 40' tree there by parking lot at Kaioua Beach. March 27--Raining today and when it's still that way this afternoon I am forced to agree with the others that we can't go to an offshore island on the windward side today so Chinaman's hat still unvisited. Letter from Davis - he hasn't security clearance and looks like he won't so he's resigning 3 April. About 0900 this morning, I drove out to Koko Head and climbed it and the hill of the small crater east of it and came back along Hanauma Bay where a dozen was breacking the reef for a boat passage. Shook a rat from tree nest. This eve Bob suggested we go see "Mad Mad World" at Cinema on King Avenue. Funny flock - at intermission manager announced tidal wave alert for North Shore residents, but I didn't think much about it till we passed a TV set returning to car about 2200. There I was shocked to learn epi-center of a large quake at 1736 hours was near enough Anchorage that my home city was wrecked. We were told we couldn't go home 'cause Waikiki was being evacuated for tidal wave and police cordons enforced it. Eventually we wound up at Koko Head but by then we'd heard