August 25, 1964 (cont.)
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partially done in the afternoon and finished Wed. morning, Aug.
26.
Algae were collected in the lagoon, in the hole where fish
were also collected and on the seaward reef edge.
only Caulerpa serrulata was seen,
in wide-spreading patches.
as an occasional clump.
In the lagoon
attached to the sandy bottom
Halimeda strepoa was present only
Last August it was common.
The algae
in the deep hole were abundant and of several species.
On the
reef edge Halimeda, Dictysphalsia intermedia and the Porolitham
types were most common.
Collecting on the reef was difficult
because of the heavy surf."
°
(Sneddon, in attempting to photo-
graph the reef edge, was upended and skidded over the coral, re-~
ceiving a number of cuts.
L.R.D. got a similar treatment--but
less severe for he had no camera to protect.)
Invertebrates were also collected for K. Bonham, who was
confined to the ship with infection in his legs.
In addition to
the usual invertebrates 5 Birgus were collected.
Three were
giant-size smoked from Messerschmidia trees by Wm. Allen.
The
smoking process caused a fire to start in one of the trees that
took the combined efforts of our group and the crew to finally
extinguish.
One small coconut crab was intended for Ed's collec-
tion but inadvertently K.B. put it in the freezer.
Fish were collected in the "deep hole” with poor success
Mey