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Lehner, P.
1944
104
Nov. 1 or Kwajalein Day
today was the first weekend day that I
have spent that was neither Saturday nor Sunday,
but instead Kwajalein Day; it seems that
there is so much traffic between Kwajalein
and Honolulu that being one day different
was confusing, therefore today (really Sunday)
was called Kwaj. Day and the whole atoll
marked time until tomorrow which will be
Sunday (really Monday for everyone else on
this side of the International Date Line);
today was kind of spent in limbo; George
and Ken took a ferry boat tour of some of
the islands in the atoll at 9:00 and
returned at 4:00 - they took binoculars in
hope of sighting birds but had little luck;
at 1:30 Brown, Roger, Larry, Dave, Steve
Michael (an aspiring marine biologist in his last
year of high school on Kwaj) and I took
the raft over to Carlson Island (Enubuj Island)
to poison fish; fighting strong winds and
fairly rough water we arrived there about 2:00;
we put Dave and Roger ashore and then took the
raft out 150 yards from shore, anchored it
and began poisoning fish - we got quite a
number of species but had a lot of trouble
netting them underwater in the strong current;
we were paid a visit by only one small shark
(over)