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[[circled]] 66 [[/circled]]
Feb. 21, 1963
[[underlined]] Anchored 1 mile N. Welchness Point. [[/underlined]]   
[[circled]] [[line above and below]] 2 traps lost [[/circled]] 
It was intended to get underway this a.m. for West side of Trinity Peninsula, but overnight quite a wind sprang up, bringing in the ice over my traps. set out yesterday morning; it was blowing 30 knots white caps and swells with it, so our 7:00 a.m. detail [[strikethrough]] to [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] could [not] [[/insertion]] go in and pick up traps./ was put [[strikethrough]] over [[/strikethrough]] off  for 2-3 hours to wait out weather for better or worse. By eleven most of clouds had [[strikethrough]] drifted [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] blown [[/insertion]] by, clear sky and sunshine through the over head break shone down & we cruised back and forth [[strikethrough]] e [[/strikethrough]] among the bergs & ice (with some difficulty) seeking the floats. But to no avail. They did not want me to go with them, but how could I stay back if any danger was involved. Gee, I hated to loose these traps. Then at one oclock we got underway for other side of peninsula. I looked up my penguin records and asked it we might look/into Supiros Bay [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] for [[/insertion]] the penguin rookery said to be there and on the [[insertion]] rock [[/insertion]] head land forming north end of Bay there was plenty evidence of their presence. on the two rocky islands in ^[[insertion]] or near [[/insertion]] mouth of Bay were colonies of [[circled]] Gentoos [[/circled]] but when I look at heights on the head land on which the colonies (brown excrement patches) rose I thought they must be chin straps which in my experience are the greatest and [[underlined]] highest [[/underlined]] climbers; there was quite a group of then on the adjacent ice high up too. (Commodore during early afternoon had gone over Seymour & Welchnes penguin evidence (of colonies) brought his telescope [[strikethrough]] along [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] up on [[/insertion]] bridge for identifying penguins on island as we steamed in the Bay, But fog set in and with poor visibility we left without [[continued along right margin]] identifying the high up species.
[[left margin]] We got underway after lying-to a while for Alcock Id Hughes Bay [[/left margin]]