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Bevediiter
1968
Journal
14 August Meade River Coal Mine, (57°25'W), 70°27'N, Above
Day Still!) and got lot of scenery & flower
photos here. Crittley Creek across the marshy
area set off by the ox box & flew over 2+
Pectrals and at least 3 Columbines on a
sly, frozen Cows pool area (Nearshore type);
They were very shy and flew off rapidly to
another section of the world. Mosquitoes not
all dead yet, but they are only slightly annoying,
and only in the most sheltered places. Almost
all the flowers I saw & August are
now dead, only Solidago and some late
composites really flowering a lot. Spent the
evening in camp critter and photographed
the sunset, which was lovely again.
Mist fell tonight.
15 August Fairly windy until about 3PM then only
windy, but almost cleared up. Staged in camp
writing notes. After dinner went to the village
to look at the ice formations in the meat
cellars; saw a flock of 15 longspurs &
several lone birds around the village but
no shorebirds. The ice rather pretty and
the ice wedge show clearly. To boil the
cellars stink so from the fish guts,
kept in them. Found a new grain on the
very back (Calamagrostis) and it began to
snow, leaving the sunders speckled white by 9PM.