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Along the beach I saw the interesting
phenomenon of thousands of capelin very
driven ashore in the surf. They make a
great struggle but it is a hopeless one for
eventually their strength gives out. The beach
in places is fairly alive with crawling and
jumping capelin. For 2 miles there were
dead capelin along the line of high tide.
The fork storm also brought up a great
mass of kelp and around the stems
once fastened clumps of thousands of fish
eels. Some were yellow, orange, pink but
none of somewhat different sizes. On the
kelp once also picked up four large
Morus still alive.
There ought to be a feast along the beach
tomorrow for the bears. All along the shore
where the capelin once coming ashore we
saw many seals among the treedlers after
the fish. Also gulls and gannets congregated but picked