Mymal Georg 1969 journal 113 5 mi. SSW Paracas, Depto. Ica, Peru Sept. 6 Last night we slept at Pearson's study area. We left at 7:00 am this morning on the Panamerican highway headed south and decided to explore the Paracas Peninsula which Manuel Plenge recom- mended to us for seeing cormors. The peninsula is fairly barren and somewhat hilly mostly of sand and rocks and a few cliffs going down to the ocean. I caught a lizard ~~ at after rock pile near the water. There are lots of pelicans, gulls birds and sea gulls here. D. Koford shot a Ancolotes. We saw one cormor as it hovered about 50 feet above the water. At about 3:30 pm we left for Nazca arriving at around 5:30 whereupon we visited Bill Franklin, who is studying vracunas at the preserve. Tonight we are camped at a clearing south of Nazca. Tomorrow well get car repairs done at Nazca and in the afternoon head towards the preserve. We found 2 young dead sea lions at the Paracas Peninsula probably killed by fishermen. Dr Koford took the skull of one of them. Nazca, Depto. Ica, Peru Sept. 7 Last night Dr. Koford and I went gecko hunting, but did not find anything. The area had been recently plowed. This morning we saw that the shells were close by and we could have