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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
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