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wanted to take a swim & we were to pick him up after collecting.  Well it started to rain cats and dogs. Dry season you know, & we all took shelter under yacht club porch with boat tied up at the pier.  Of course Bredin went in water, there were several others here already, and as rain kept on I could not resist temptation. It was glorious; B said water was 85, however it was best swim (dip) I've enjoyed in a long time. Finally the rain stopped and we went off too our ridge with Bredin along. These few rocks were compacted [[strikethrough]] colo [[/strikethrough]] coral rocks much as at Portugas, and very rich picking. (Tide was low at 9 a.m. and here we were just about near peak low water trying to do something.  The geol. hammer saved the day. By knocking off chunks of rock we uncovered a number of alpheid shrimps and alpheids, sea urchins, hermit crabs. While we were cracking rock, Nicholson roamed around with his diving mask and snorkle, and got us a small fish, ^[[&]]2 ophiurans. [[strikethrough]] and a [[?]] worm, &c. [[/strikethrough]]  We also got a few red sea anemones. Place was a gold-mine or would have been could we have had more time and especially low tide instead of high. We made one dredge haul and got a couple of hermits, scarcely worth while bottom was little too rocky and we only had sand bottom dredge along. Was close to supper when we got back but we started sorting. Continued it after supper & up till 11 p.m. before