Rolfe and mate do not return by evening with the missing pack camels. Taylor studies the map carefully and decides that Johns is somewhat lost, confusing Mount Peculiar and Mount Udor, he deduces that Putardie rockhole must be at the foot of Mount Udor.

A cool cloudy morning at camp 55, Colson and Bailey away on the camels at 8ish, Terry and Bird on the truck at 9.00, to check the southern flank of the Blackstone Range, very uninteresting country to the prospector. Camels and truck have traveled nine miles by midday. Plenty of game about and fresh tracks from Aboriginals, all alert.

The party heads for the Cavenagh Range to conserve supplies and fuel and cover as much ground as possible, water supplies holding well, mindful the Cavenaghs are supposedly waterless. Nights camp six miles short of the Range.