August 21-~-Friday
(cont.)
heads to a protected area about 100 feet from shore.
The easiest
landing we have ever made on Boro-~we left the same way.
Boro Island is still the garbage dump of the lagoon.
A
big wave or storm must have passed over the island and washed the
accumulation of litter on out to sea.
Now only glass balls,
light bulbs, bottles, etc. litter the island.
As always,
island.
large numbers of birds live or rest on the
We did not take time to set rat traps as the ship moved
on as soon as we finished the collections.
Fish were collected with Fish-Tox on the reef flat just
seaward of the island.
A fair number of fish were collected with
a few different ones from the regular run.
tions silt covered the reef,
the coral.
As in so many loca-
reducing visibility and smothering
New growths of many kinds of Coral were observed in
the fish collecting areas,
Gessel:
such.
"Boro Island is a rock pile with little soil as
Very difficult to even find an area to sample.
The
island is covered with vegetation though, and apparently had not
been disturbed by the tests to any extent.
Birds were numerous
and apparently were contributing a good deal to general fertility
of this rocky area."