Monday 23rd October 1911, Final Preparations Prior To Departure
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Turned out at 5.30. Rather breezy but sunny.
It is interesting that the first Adélie Penguins should have been seen at Cape Royds yesterday, because in 1902 the first Adélie was seen at Hut Point on exactly the same date.
It was interesting to hear too from Nelson that today the collection of ice plate crystals, which have formed every day on his net lines all through the winter, were for the first time absent and that this absence coincided with a sudden large increase in the number of diatoms caught in the plankton net, and almost certainly with a rise in the temperature of the water. These water temps. are being taken with very extraordinary exactness nowadays, with thermometers which register to a thousandth of a degree centigrade.
Today also two baby seals were seen newly born at the large Razorback Island tide crack. Oates saw them when he was out there with his horses. All the forenoon went in trying to get the two motor cars off with their loads, but they wouldn’t work well and kept stopping, though they were within an ace of being successful.
So after spending half the day at one thing and another, it was decided to postpone the start till tomorrow. In the afternoon I was out with my horse, after that working at the taking of latitude sights mathematics—which I hate—till bedtime. It will be wiser to know a little navigation on this southern sledge journey.
