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Lehner, P.
1964
8
July 24 - continued
take my chances with the rocks
where I was headed - after being
tossed in and sucked under a couple
times, I washed up onto the rocks,
grapped hold and scrambled further
up before I was sucked out again
or hit by another incoming wave -
while scrambling up the rocks I stumbled
and cut my knee and a finger (the
only injuries I suffered in the landing)
turning around I saw that Ken had
been forced in behind me and except
for being tossed around by the surf he
was climbing through the rocks in good
shape - we unloaded the gear and began
banding - we found Wedge-tail Shearwaters in
all kinds of habitat - underground burrows,
under rocks, under vines and out in the open.
found two Bolwer's Petrel chicks, a skink,
several individual land crabs, and several
Bolwer's Petrel carcasses; we banded about 150
wedge-tails - collated one which I accidentally
injured while banding - we returned to the
raft without incident, did some skin diving
and then headed back - the return was
much easier with the help of the current-