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Windfall Harbor
Admiralty Island, Alaska
April 17 - May 19
We arrived here April 17 about
noon. The snow is still lying
thick on the mountains and extend
clear down to the beach. It is from
4 to 6 ft. deep on the level and the
only place you can go is along the
beach at low tide or in the boat.
Spruce and fir form the most
of the timber and there is a fringe
of alders all along the shore. Nothing
is leafing out at all yet. The matuis
day that the season is behind time
about a month.
The mammals seen so far
here are the finback whale and
a white footed mouse. Of birds
Varied thrushes, Sicharkinglet, gurnets
and a pine siskin have been taken and
there are several kinds of ducks and
a few geese in the harbor.