Rain prevents Taylor and Johns getting away before 9.00a.m. and it's a hard fifteen miles for the day through boggy creeks and rough ground, the flooded Finke River has forced them to take a circuitous route. This evening Rolfe and his mate arrive in camp, on their way to pick up the remainder of the petrol from the Ayers Rock misadventure.

Terry and Bird enjoy roast rabbit for breakfast, excellent, first fresh meat since Moorilyana. Bird guards camp and baking while Terry searches for the water holes discovered by Carruthers over thirty years ago, and has success and a bath, superb water, returns to camp by 10.00 and relieves Bird who also enjoys the welcome surprise of plentiful clean water. Lunch at 12.30 and much concern, the camels have not turned up, what to do, after much discussion decide there is nothing for it but to wait the situation out.

The afternoon is spent taking bearings from a hill behind the camp, the country is unmapped and from the large scale map of Australia, all he has, Terry deduces that the Blackstone Range is thirty miles to the west and the Cavenagh Range another twenty miles further west. 450 miles from Laverton, 550 miles from Wiluna, and the same from Oodnadatta. Finishes at sundown and now very anxious about the safety of the missing camel team.

Lasseter sets up camp at Lake Christopher and searches the claypan for any sign of Johansen, nothing.