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cliff - [[underline]] really vertical. [[/underline]] I cut along the top of the talus for a long way but could find no way up so at last I tried the root-route.  Succeeded in getting up to the 190 foot level & above me was only about 10 feet more of actual cliff but there I was stopped.  Getting down was naturally much harder than getting up & my arms got so tired hanging on to those banyan roots that I contemplated the possibility of doing a King Albert! - but nothing like that is going to happen to me this trip!

So the old warrior still rests in his stronghold! The rocks encountered were pretty poor but I did get orbitoids higher than I have gotten them previously.

We also got 10 bottles of land shells and some spiders. We have 

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had heavy showers off an on all day. The worst hit us along the coast so we just squatted smoking in the nip & watched the rain beat down the tiny lagoon waves and blot out the reef.

Home early completely drenched and cold - but hot tea & a hot bath have done wonders.

Late this afternoon I caught a 2 foot green lizard in a bread fruit tree next to the house. I've pickled him for the museum.  Funny thing is that Willy (who handles all sorts of spiders bare-handed) is scared to death of lizards!  He positively groaned when I handled the beast - I who do [[underline]] not [[/underline]] like handling spiders! So Willy, too, has an Achilles heel!