Lehner, Philip N., 1964-1965
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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)