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[[blank page]] [[end page]] [[start page]] [[circled]] 58 [[/circled]] Cold enough or so it feels, to freeze a "brass monkey" Stars are out tonite quite clear, instead of usual overcast Made Seymour Id @ ^[[insertion]] Feb. 15th Friday. [[/insertion]] 3 p.m. For a time it looked as though helicopter flight would not be made high winds. However Berg got ashore & Jack went along brought back some fossil shell matrices & sea weed from shore latter had nothing in it. Commodore also brought some weed plus sand sample for Art. & red over-lay on stream bed [[strikethrough]] d [[/strikethrough]] sand. Two dredge hauls were made while lying to in ice, both similar, and though not a wealth of material did net us some unique things. Pebbles, gravel small rocks and sand interlaced with fine worm tubes Ice conditions bad, & the Tubular Bergs immense, and in all directions one after the other. Left Seymour at Feb 16th >> [[underlined in red]] All rest of day and nite through ice one [[/underlined]] [[circled]] Feb 16 1963 [[/circled]] [[margin, vertical wavy line]] patch this a.m. ^[[insertion]] [[circled]] Feb 16th [[/circled]] [[/insertion]] almost solid missed taking picture of an long tubular iceberg alongside of which we steamed; it was floating in a big ice field; beyond open water, and now at 8 am. bumping ice cakes again. // was straightening out specimens and bottom samples when I missed that ice-sheet, iceberg photo. Have to put small stuff in plastic bags. [[/margin, vertical wavy line]] Is this just "imagination", or a true paradox. The ice free Ids seem to have sea-ice and bergs about them to a greater extent than the ice and snow covered islands about which the sea is reativley free of ice.