It looks as though the sea had frozen over for good.  If no further blizzard clears the Strait it can be said for this season that: 

The Bays froze over on March 25. 
The Strait ,,    ,,    ,, April 22.
,,    ,,  dissipated April 29.
,,    ,,  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.

It is curious to find that all the heavy seas come from the south and that it is from this direction that protection is most needed.

There is some curious weathering on the ice blocks on the N. side; also the snow drifts show interesting dirt bands.  The island had a good sprinkling of snow, which will all be gone, I expect, to-night.  For as we reached the summit we saw a storm approaching from the south; it had blotted out the Bluff, and we watched it covering Black Island, then Hut Point and Castle Rock.  By the time we started homeward it was upon us, making a harsh chatter as it struck the high rocks and sweeping along the drift on the floe.

The blow seems to have passed over to-night and the sky is clear again, but I much fear the ice has gone out in the Strait.  There is an ominous black look to the westward.

Sunday, April 30.—­As I feared last night, the morning light revealed the havoc made in the ice by yesterday’s gale.  From Wind Vane Hill (66 feet) it appeared that the Strait had not opened beyond the island, but after church I went up the Ramp with Wilson and steadily climbed over the Glacier ice to a height of about 650 feet.  From this elevation one could see that a broad belt of sea ice had been pushed bodily to seaward, and it was evident that last night the whole stretch of water from Hut Point to Turtle Island must have been open—­so that our poor people at Hut Point are just where they were.