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alone & late(!) We called driver who brought two taxis & off we went to Seno Otway - S.E. Shore - Paved road for a few km - then left on dirt w 2 large washed-out culverts to get around & check pt. to pass.

Drove thru sheep pasture along water and - great excitement - stopped to watch a huge brown eagle-like hawk. The Luis spotted [[underlined]] rheas [[/underlined]]! What a thrill - huge rheas - not the little ones of Brasil. Big gray birds parading out in the wilds. Saw lots before day ended. Tall adults & half-grown chicks. ^[[image - drawing of ostrich-like bird with short dark beak and straight upright neck]]  Then a beautiful [[underlined]] curved bill bird [[/underlined]] ~ 19" tall.  ^[[image - drawing of bird]] wrong -- too sloopy This looks like a wading bird. It looked like [[strikethrough]] snipe [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined]] ibis [[/underlined]] lst cousin.

I am too sleepy for all this. 10:45 after long fun in sun & wind.
Continued on - saw geese in pasture .. thru fence to final parking place. Walked ~ 2 km at least & found little black & white [[underlined]] Magellenic penguins [[/underlined]] in surf & on shore - Several separate crowds of them. Home on banks of Patagonia. Stiff, steady wind, sun, not really cold. Tiny whild flowers under foot. Got close to penguins & examined burrows on shore. Splendid, splendid day. Drove back & arr. hotel ~ 8:00. Jeff & I & Stillwell ate here - to get ordinary meal. Had wierd service. Jeff Stillwell lucked out w chicken milanesa (covered w diced carrots & some peas) I had broiled chicken, dry wine, asparagus. Jeff Post ill again & left early. On to bed. Now @ 10:50.

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[[underlined]] Sat. Feb.9 [[/underlined]] : Slept in -- that is, awoke 7:15 & dozed another hour & some. To breakfast ~ 9:15.. found Bill & Brian and joined them. Jeff soon after. Bill thought we should work on the ship today instead of outing to fort. He was going to collect fossils N. of P.M. but they magnitude of job on deck persuaded him not to. He talked a lot about NSF, then left us & Brian gave us a lot of info on K/T at Seymour. They can't be sure of location within 130 meters. Sev. glauconite layers should be anal. for sidenophiles. Sea cliff will be hard to sample because of muddy talus. V. useful discussion. Started for P. Duke w Luis & Jeff but stopped at Telephone Co. to call home. Surprised Tom. I simply gave our number to a pleasant woman behind desk & took a seat. After awhile she told me Booth 1 & there was Tom. Distant but clear. Told him about Monte Carlo reservation for him on 16th - to bring Internat. License & Chilean bird book. He said to write to Madalyn from home. Must also write Crabbies. On Duke we were listing boxes & packing them into stacks by category. At ~ 2:00 would have left for lunch but gang plank was up while they moved the ship along the pier a bit. A glorious, warm sunny day w. bit of breeze. For lunch bought breads, yoghurt, drinks & ate on bench in plaza. Jeff P., Toni, & I left for Duke via CEMA kiosk, which was closed. Jeff Stillwell & Luis [[arrow]] hotel. Not feeling so great. Nothing doing on boat. Woodburn arrived w. his party but we had no instructions to proceed. Bill off to buy proper water containers -- wrong ones in consignment. We wanted to buy: Pepto bismol, Kleenex, t. paper, Alcohol. Jeff drank all my peptobismol last night but we couldn't find it any where in town. ~ 4:00 Jeff P, Toni & I got taxi to go to Zona Franca ^[[At hotel met Buzz Batzel -- just arrived. He advised leaving street clothes on Duke.]]
Less impressed than ever. A wierd mix of shops. No pepto bismol, no Kleenex. no TP. In fact a Chilean man overheard Toni  say: "Imagine all this stuff" and, I added, "and no toilet paper" He thought it very funny & couldn't wait to tell his wife. As we strolled on we found Bill drinking beer w. Mark Eichenberger and Pat Knacker. Next, our taxi man of yesterday stepped up to greet us. We arr. to ride home w. him. We bought scotch. [[strikethrough]] wine [[/strikethrough]] & Toni, dark glasses. wandered around & out, where driver waving and waiting. On way home we stopped at supermarket and bought wine & toilet p. home ~6:30. Jeff wanted to walk up hill & take photos. Met Stillwell & Luis - Toni decided to write letters instead [good idea]