23 May - as it turned out I got queasy only once and and fully adjusted to the toss and turn of the tug. If it gets real rough, I might just lose my lunch and a few other things. 24 May - not much excitement today - but a hell of alot a birds. Mostly these were seen: Sooty Tern, Wedge- tailed Shearwater, Fairy Tern, Bulwer's Petrel, a few of these were noted: Gray-back Tern, Pterodroma sp., Red-F Booby, Black F. Albatross, Common Mottle, Great Frigatebird, Christmas Island Shearwater, WRSF, Sooty Storm Petrel. I should note that we were initially having trouble identifying the Bulwer's Petrel - they were thought to be Sooty S.P., but are too large in size and lack fork-tails to be such. 34 feeding flocks were noted of ca. 200 birds, mostly of Wedgies and Super-Sooties. Occasionally a frigate would be overhead waiting to pirate. Over 95% of the Wedgies are Lt. phased. 25 May - Today we got French Frigate Shoals in sight at ca. 8:800 and at 10:00 put the 15 man raft over board to get rid of Bimon and TSL from 2081 and also to look around, since we are ahead of schedule. Upon cautiously traveling thru the reef and coral we came upon Tern Island to behold a throng of self-starved Coast Guardsmen welcome a plane which was landing at the same time - they ignored us. Anyway we dumped our goodies, pushed up a beer and took Stadel, our wayward sun self-starved short, into our fold. Birds on Frigate Shoals were: Laysan Albatross, RTTB, Fairy Terns which were nesting (ca. 50 pair RTTB, 100 pair Laysan A.). Now-waters were Fairy Terns, Kāhūa Finch (transplanted); these 2 were hopping around in the Cauparina Trees. Birds from the observations were: PFA Albatross, Laysan A,