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Ceph, Mar 20, 79, III        [[circled]25[[/circles]]

Everything still very dull 7:40. Have the inds which were "courting"
yesterday gone somewhere else (reefs) to continue (and finish) their courtship?

Group is down to 21 inds again.

NOTE: In Dark fins are usually semi-dark while still semi-transparent.

Group is now rather jumbled, and no longer graded by size

One large approaches school of rather large minnows,ui rather pale,
conspicuously spotted Ord, with WS and T,tentacles protruding. Retreats in same color. Then advances again. In same color, but this time also with WT and (briefly) White Fins. Then retreats without WT or White Fin.

Squid suddenly gone 7:32 am. OF course, while I am writing my notes!
Stopping observations 8:00 am.

March 22, 1979
Guam

We couldn't go out yesterday because of heavy winds. But the weather is
much better today. We will try several nites on the West coast. More or less to the north.

10:18 am. Gun Beach. There is a cable channel here. Coruer and Moore did their work on Sepia latimanus here in relatively deep water, while uidividu [?] ali [?] of Sepioteuthis sepioidea have been seen (only last week) in shallower water here. The bottom is gently sloping coral. The water is clear today.

We all (4 of us) swam around until 10:30, without seeing a sign of either cuttlefish or squids!

So we go on to Dos Amantes Point, a little bit further north. Into water 11:05 am. The environment looks much the same as at Gun Beach. But we found Sepiots immediately. 

At least 3 larges and 2 mediums. All are 1 ft, or less, down in 15 ft of water over coral, 20-30 feet from shore. 

The animals are not doing anything very spectacular, but they are still surprising. They are remarkably scattered. Usually at least 10-15 ft apart from one another. Sometimes much more.

They all seem to be feeding. Floating perfectly normally. Then making diagonal, upward, forward, "approaches" with arms and tentacles partly extended. Then stopping, backing off, pausing. Then resuming approaches. Etc. Etc.

They do not make conspicuous strikes with tentacles as a climax to their approaches. But I think they are catching very small prey (invisible to me) with their (other) arms. This area is known to be thick with very small