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- These two, with spinifex
were the sand fixers here.
Returned to Sattahip for tea
+ to Bang Saen for dinner.
The road incredibly rough.
home by midnight.
Saw quantities of sugar cane,
casava, coconut, thatch palm
+ mangoes growing, great areas
of mangrove swamps + salt
marshes.
Dec [December] 2, 1957. Bangkok.
Drove down to the University
Biological Station at Bang
Saen - 100 km [kilometers] down the
E [east] side of Gulf of Siam. Here
the river still has a lot of
influence + the water is
less saline than that of Turtle
Island. The tide was in
when we got there + stayed in
but we got a bit of a glance
at the upper zone of the
intertidal. Very depauperate -
1 sp. [species] of Littorina, 1 oyster, 1
grapsid crab, 1 hygida [?].
Shells on the beach are almost
all pelycyapods [pelecypods].
Found the children screening
out a small pelycopod [pelecypod] that
is pickled in brine + made into
a sauce. Others were
drying + toasting squid +
running them through
small rollers.
Collected 4 mudskippers
(Periophthalamus) + 2 sp. [species] of fiddle crabs
Photographed - a blue legume
Clitoria? [Clitoria ternatea]
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