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Lehner, P.
1904
7
July 24 - continued
a lot of beautiful fish, a shelf of
sharp rock, strong currents, and poisonous
sea urchins; with this Paul leaped
in and made it to shore without
incident - Cam then swam in - Ken
and I fooled around the raft a few
minutes - Paul found a couple wedgetents
so we decided to take the drum ashore
which contained our equipment and field
clothes; Ken and I set out; he with
mask, snorkel and equipment drum, me with
his glasses and a mouth full of sea water;
by the time we hit the cove a large set
of waves had started coming in - Ken
released the drum in order to keep from
drowning and I foolishly tried to push
it on in - I made the mistake of
trying to push the drum against the
current coming out, the surf going to
my left and myself going down; when
the surf had finally pushed over near
the rocks I said the hell with the
equipment drum and tried to save my
life; Cam hollered for us to swim against
the surf and straight on into the cove - I
had lost sight of Ken and decided to