The Bays froze over on March 25.
The Strait froze„ over„ on„ April 22.
The„ Strait„ dissipated April 29.
The„ Strait„ froze over on April 30.
Later. The Hut Point record of freezing is:
| Night 24th-25th. | Ice forming mid-day 25th, opened with leads. |
| 26th. | Ice all out, sound apparently open. |
| 27th. | Strait apparently freezing. |
| Early 28th. | Ice over whole Strait. |
| 29th. | All ice gone. |
| 30th. | Freezing over. |
| May 4th. | Broad lead opened along land to Castle Rock, 300 to 400 yds. wide. |
Party intended to start on 11th, if weather fine.
Very fine display of aurora to-night, one of the brightest I have ever seen—over Erebus; it is conceded that a red tinge is seen after the movement of light.
Saturday, April 29.—Went to Inaccessible Island with Wilson. The agglomerates, kenytes, and lavas are much the same as those at Cape Evans. The Island is 540 ft. high, and it is a steep climb to reach the summit over very loose sand and boulders. From the summit one has an excellent view of our surroundings and the ice in the Strait, which seemed to extend far beyond Cape Royds, but had some ominous cracks beyond the Island.
We climbed round the ice foot after descending the hill and found it much broken up on the south side; the sea spray had washed far up on it.
