The Illbilla petrol party gets away at 9.00 but the camels are still skittish and likely to bolt, mostly due to Johns poor handling. No lunch break and they arrive at Putardie early evening. Open up the dump left there by Lasseter and Johns on 19/09/30 and find the heavy rains have damaged most of the supplies, the flour is useless but the butter in unsealed tins from Quorn is still edible, must be well salted. The remaining supplies are repacked for Illbilla.

At the Endeavour camp 54, all away by 7.30 and the truck travels the 23 miles to camp 55 in a little over three hours, thank goodness sighs Terry, he is in a very bad way, his mates diagnose every ailment under the sun and doctor him accordingly, rest is the only cure.

rain threatening by midday and at 4.00 thunderstorms about with sudden sharp rain then drizzle for the rest of the night. The camel team, Colson and Bailey fail to arrive at camp, probably held up by rain. Terry has a miserable night of it.