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A recent series of emails seems to have found the little Polynesian girl, Balabala now living in California. The series of emails to a church website in Micronesia brought almost one hundred replies from people who remembered our visit aboard the US Navy seaplane in August 1969 while we were investigating possible Crown of Thorns starfish, (Acanthaster planci).

Team members: Dr Barry R. Wilson, Dr Richard M. Ibara, Ken DaVico, John Harding.

Does anyone know the whereabouts of one of the air crew J. "Mac" Halliday? He kindly arranged for a flying lesson as we returned to Guam. Apologies whoever became air sick as a consequence!

Richard Ibara said "It was a terrible flight, rising and falling and over correcting east-west".