Weather continuing thoroughly bad. Wind blowing from 30 to 40 miles an hour all day; drift bad, and to-night snow falling.

I am waiting to get back to Hut Point with relief stores.

Impressions on returning to the Hut, April 13, 1911

In choosing the site of the hut on our Home Beach I had thought of the possibility of northerly winds bringing a swell, but had argued, firstly, that no heavy northerly swell had ever been recorded in the Sound...

We marched towards Cape Evans under the usually miserable conditions which attend the breaking of camp in a cold wind after a heavy blizzard....

Easter came round on the Barrier, as in other parts of the globe, and had to be kept.

Holidays with us were marked by eating a little more than usual; there was no other sign. We did not dress differently, nor did we introduce any other change. In the evening of a holiday we...

Easter Even. Blowing a gale with drift and temperature —18.5°F. Some of our severest weather when a blizzard comes on and the temperature remains so low.

Spent the day in all of us, darning and sewing and reading...

Birdie Bowers continues his recollection of the Returning Party's march to Cape Evans and Winter Quarters:

We were two nights there and on the morning of the 13th it took off enough for us to head for home. We saw Sunny Jim’s [Simpson’s] Observatory on the Hill, but...

During the morning Teddy and I went out to establish a survey line for our triangulation....

‘All or nothing’ is Amundsen's motto, they say, and...