D A Good 1982 Journal Shuswap Lake to Kettle River, British Columbia, cont' 7 July (cont') then N to Kettle River Provincial Recreation where we camped ca. 1500. We spent the rest of the day (much of which was raining) doing nothing much. Kettle River to Vancouver, British Columbia 8 July Another uneventful and poorly spent day. We got up ca. 0800 and spent a couple of hours turning logs in the vicinity of Kettle River Prov. Park - Some of the areas looked very good; but no ligands. After having exhausted the area around the campground, I decided not to waste any more time (it's already been almost 3 weeks) in the eastern part of the range of Benhamites coeruleus. We therefore drove W on Hwy 3 to Vancouver, where we checked into a motel. I intend to go north along the coast from Vancouver tomorrow. In mid afternoon we stopped in at Manning Provincial Park Headquarters and I talked to a naturalist there. She said that in 4 years, she has seen only 2, but she sent us to the rock-slide area where she had seen them. This, however, was along a nature trail in the park and was not conducive to collecting, so we didn't stay long. Again, the impression I get is that alligator ligands are scarce in most of inland B.C. (though we did get 6 on Copper Island). I hope they will be more common on the cost. I also am beginning to wonder if perhaps log-filled meadows are not optimum habitat for them here; the only