Item 01: Fred Hamilton-Kenny letter diary, 29 August-19 October 1914 - Page 165
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[Page 165]
Saty - Oct 31 We complete our tenth week this eveng - The fleet came in about 7 am & Vice Admiral Patey again takes sole charge - We've no war news at all - We just wait - I put in time Friday aftn - by sailing with Blayney (2nd Off) Harrison & Herbert over to the reef - When near the reef in shoal water, about 3 feet in depth, we stripped & got in – coral sand formed the bottom & it was real good fun - A coral reef is one of big phenomena of Nature - The infinitely little polyp building up in immensity of rock & altering the formation of continents - The polyp builds & the elevation & subsidence of the earth's crust is responsible for an enormous area of both land & sea in the South Pacific - The power of the polyp has in these parts far exceeded that of the volcano - Fiji is volcanic - One always has a good general idea of a [indecipherable] reef but you must really see this phenomenon in order to appreciate its magnitude & what