Yesterday we spent much of the day traveling around the northern 2/3 of the atoll by small boat. We left Tern about 9 a.m. and went o East Island to switch the turtle techs. We stayed there about an hour doing several bird censuses and giving the techs some time to discuss their exchange of duty. We then left East and went on to the Ginns. Officially called, Ginn Island and Little Ginn Island. They are both low sand islands with no vegetation but good populations of several ground nesting seabirds. We got ashore by anchoring the boat, leaving Steve in the boat, and swimming in through the surf. We did several censuses there and sat on the beach and enjoyed the wild surroundings for a minute. The picture of me walking was on Little Ginn. I was walking out a spit of sand that was submerged and had small breakers coming from both sides. It felt like, and is, a very wild spot. From the Ginns we went back to East Island and dropped Tammy off to begin her 3 day shift. We then moved on to La Perouse Pinnacle and sorkeled for a little while. It was too rough to be much fun so most of us snoozed in the boat and a couple people snorkeled. From there we motored back to Tern and our home away from home.
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