25 May - Wedge-tail Shearwater, Sooty Tern, Fairy Tern, Common Tody, Great Frigate, Bulwer's Petrel, Red-footed Booby, Christmas Island Shearwater. Also we observed ca. 50 Pacific Bottlenosed Dolphin ca. 4 miles off FFS. The chief hauled in a BFA while Trawling - croy! 26 May - Gardner Pinnacles - at 0900 today we departed the LTs and jumped into the raft to scale the main and largest of the three pinnacles. Gardner P. are almost a day from the nearest land (French Frigate Shoals) and situated virtually like the desert island one sees in cartoons, yet with a different terrain, not sand and palm trees. The pinnacles are composed of lava with some large boulders and rock sprinkled throughout to give the appearance a cemented rock wall. From a distance it is a sight of two large rocks that don't belong. The larger appears like the hump and head of a camel, the smaller like a phallus protruding upward as the god El [illegible] in the City Nebor, a third, and insignificant rocks are also there. From a distance the peaks look dusty snow caps, not so, but guano. The perimeter of the rocks are covered with algal growth and crabs and a slime of bird origin that has trickled down the crags for centuries. Life on this cliff in the middle of the Pacific is of one major occupant, the bird, better said several species of sea birds. Other animals noted were deceased bottlefish and probably some other carrion types along with into parasites. Plant life noted: Portulaca in sparse amounts with algae and probably some fungi. Only a very brief survey was carried on; just to ascertain what was there and in what quantities and of what activities. We were there for ca. 2 to 2½ hours. Accounts and estimates are done with little time to survey. Speculation