JAN VERBECK 1966 Journal 56 Here yesterday. Tom tried in vain to collect a term. On the way down from the lake I collected some feeding observations. In the evening, after supper, a group of ±350 Caribou moved by our camp, about 2 km to the south. I spent the rest of the evening to try to get to the S of them, in order to sneak up to take pictures. I got to the large lake below wind from them (I could smell them) yet they got wind of me (probably the high bluff along the lake created some strange turbulence in the wind). I managed to take one picture under very poor light conditions (1/30 sec at f2.8). Got home at 23:45. 29 July. The cirrus clouds of yesterday were heralds of a change in the weather. The sun only rarely got through the clouds. The cooler temperatures kept the mosquitoes down. In the morning the camp was in a state of disorganization because several people were moving out, back to Bannow. In the afternoon, after the dishes and my sweeping out the laboratory and the kennel house, Tom and I rowed across the river, Tom to collect a term (Arctic) and I to make a hike toward the dunes, some 5 km. down stream from our camp. On the way down I walked partway over the tundra till I came to a large marsh along the river. From there I went to the shore and continued down the tributary. The large marsh was occupied by at least a dozen Peletoals and an equal # of Arctic Terns flew above it. Also saw a female Old Squaw. Along the shore I saw tracks of a fox, probably Red Fox, and quite a few Arctic ground squirrel dens. All of these were