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Yesterday when Fenner & I went to light house Bruce & Al Smith went inland & upland to a crater lake Grand Etang to collect, leaving Smith, Bruce pressing on for a longer drive of sight seeing the country, with auto going back for Smith at 1 p.m. & we returned at 12.30 Bruce earlier.

Our collecting ground (N. end) was fairly large boulders, which after I'd cleared a path down to coarse sand & gravel yielded me the porcellanids & crabs mentioned above. Fenner cracked some old lumps of coral & got a few more, including a few sipunculid worms. But rush of water through rocks made it difficult. Then we went down on beach with sieve we had bought to try for Hippas (sand bugs) got three the surf threw me a couple of times & almost torn wooden framed seive from my hands over though loaded with sand. Lost [[strikethrough]] as much as [[/strikethrough]] ^[[more than]] we gained but we did come up with 3 (only). It was just too tough to continue and undertow seemed pretty strong. So we moved to S (S.E.?) end of beach. It had a few caves and rocks more encrusted heres where Fenner got the two shrimp. Could have done more here had we started earlier ^[[Before too long]] our auto came back 12.15 and our [[strikethrough]] day [[/strikethrough]] forenoon was done. Fell among rocks twice due to heavy waves.
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After lunch launch was put in water to take us to rock ledge (reef Nicholson says) running along off shore from hotel to Grande Anse Beach where local yacht club hold forth. Here Bredin 

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