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Lehner, P.
1949
22
Oct. 11 up at 7:50 A.M. ; Binion ran in grabbed
(possibly springs)
a gun and said ducks were flying over; saw
Crested Terns near camp; northwest beach of
Sibylla had seven Crested Terns on eggs (about
30 ft. from water among small bunch grass); there
are many ♂ Frigate birds with gular sacs blown up -
throughout the day we must have seen 200-300; %40
found Wedgetail burrows about midway up Sibylla (about
100 yards from West beach; Binion, George, Chris and
myself began walking up west side of Sibylla about
8:30 A.M. (above statements occurred after leaving camp);
there are hundreds or thousands of small (2-4 ft.)
black-tipped sharks in the very shallow water
near the beach - they almost beach themselves in
their scurrying around; saw Blue-gray Noddies and
Black-naped Terns at north end of Sibylla ; at
12:30 we crossed the three channels seperating
Sibylla and Breje and walked the east shore of
Breje to its northern end; we saw many small
black tipped sharks, other Grouper-like fish and an
octopus (about 3 ft.) while crossing channel ; we
found an old airplane wing and a whale jaw on
target plane)
Breje; we left Chris on Sibylla when we crossed the
channel - he returned to camp on west shore of
Sibylla ; we started back from north Breje at
East
1:15 ; we came down east side of both Breje
and Sibylla through intermittent rain squalls; there
are hundreds of Red-tailed Tropicbirds and Frigates
on Breje and from what we could see on Kamone
(over)