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[[underlined]] Thursday, March 14 [[/underlined]] 
During the night, the ship hit bottom at low tide, broke a couple of lines, and the Captain decided to move offshore. Much noise and grinding. We arose in channel out near the glacier. Up to breakfast about 7:10. as Jeff & I were planning to hike up to the glacier behind Palmer. The ship was not moving back to dock until high tide (~1:00) so it looked as tho we might be stuck. However a zodiac was hauled out to take some of us to Palmer and some, who missed it yesterday, to Humble Island. Meanwhile, Bill decided to leave all the rock boxes at Palmer, so all were unloaded from the van. I quickly stowed my Antarctic clothes in my box but, just then, Bill decided not to leave them at Palmer after all. Jeff & I rode into Palmer & left our life-jacket-coats there. Bill went in to get manifests for us to make out for our boxes. They didn't have any. We invited him to hike w. us, but he said "no" because he had the wrong shoes on. He started out w. us tho & wound up spending whole am w us.

Behind the rocky knoll where Palmer Station is built on a big ice cap on Anvers Is. The ice feathers to nothing against the rocks & rises in a very gentle slope to a great lake or dome. An easy walk up to an antenna and beyond. [[strikethrough]] Ice [[/strikethrough]] Snow hard & brittle beneath feet -- soon became smoother & packed hard. There were ski tracks up there. As we climbed, more & more 

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mountain came into view. Snow-covered w [[cirgules?]] & coli. We could see all of the range that forms the tip of the peninsula, plus bays & inlets & islands looking as tho they belonged in Maine. The sky got clearer & brighter -- day warm & windless; panorama spectacular. We took picture after picture. At top were some small crevasses filled w. icicles - we had to walk gingerly around them. Finally climbed down again and over to rocky slopes behind station to examine glacial features - ranch montainees, chatter marks, striation, polish, and rock flows still plastered to surfaces. A deposit of pyrite & qtz crystals there too. Bill showed us how far the ice covered the rx in 1977 & has retreated at about a meter a year since then. Palmer is one jewel of an Antarctic station, set in one of the marvelous scenes of the world.

When we returned, after a glorious morning, it was lunch time at Palmer & we were made welcome. Jeff had a huge bowl of chili, which I gladly passed up. I had honey dew melon -- about 5 good slices, and a scoop of pineapple ice cream. We sat outside on a porch overlooking the rocky shore & the bay. Bill sat too enjoying a pipe.

Finally, the ship moved and tied up to the dock. As we milled around I saw a biologist wearing a USARP pin & thought it very attractive. I didn't buy one in the store & wished I had. I told him I liked it &, after some discussion, he offered to sell it to me. He can replace his at the store. However, then he asked for a Seymour Is patch, when they are made, & we agreed

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