Lehner, Philip N., 1964-1965
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Lohweg R. 1964 55 Oct. 17 - continued hung herself up in the thick Messerschmidia at the forest edge; From there she fought her way out and into the wind - it is doubtful that with the forest as cool as it is, that night ambient temperatures would drop low enough to cause sufficient convection currents rising out of the forest to allow her to rise up and out through one of the few canopy openings in the immediate vicinity; the max.-min. temp. at camp was 90° and 84° ; 1:30 returned to camp ; Ken and George returned from the northeast islet having banded 600 10 to 20 day old Sooty Tern chicks; at 3:00 I went skin-diving, hoping the salt water would toughen up my still sore heels (I have not worn shoes now for 6 days); the water in front of camp provided several types of aqua habitat with the changes in current between this island and Aromenii; the fish fauna is very extensive; I saw many (Humu humu nukunuku apua's) which I have come to believe are the most bizarre fish in tropical waters ; I took several underwater shots with my Nikonos; the sight of a large moray eel (about 6 ft. long) at my heels got me out of the water at about 4:30; it was surprising how (over)