Mon. Aug.9. Due to disability, I took we made let's start, truck clump at 2.30 p.m. went out on Even. Welch Rd thru 8-mi paddock fat. to abr 9 miles. We had Steppards 'Toy'. The ascent out crossing Crull Riv.- very sandy, shore dry, + redul corduroy. Track very indistinct hard to find. However it kept up close to the southern hills, leading over the lower fullies. Fitz's Creek, at the headwater of which are many deep-cleft ravines & a curious pinnacle rock, was bone dry. We posted on thru the night, cutty road + a more or less road procedure, till we finally, at 8-9 abouts, found water in L. Creek. Tue. Aug.10. Left early. Fairly easy progress. At abt 9 crossed a saddle below a mid-perfecting spur, then the try got us off the road for half a mile but we circled back to it. On nearly the day the big spur was in sight, at the nw. Your of which ran the Perch Riv. & was gourly breath old Steppards's battery (for crusty rock-outs). We crossed a running branch of the Perch at about 11.30 - then on over a number of dry fullies as we neared the big spur. Arrival at the Perch was almost unexpected - at about 2.30 p.m. The pack + saddle horses (2 stor) arrived abt 4 p.m. Len + I will ride up the hill tomorrow. We saw on fly fox - alone - then Van saw & for a second. They were P. Scapulatus. The road at the Perch was very poor. There was much down-tinder & much new regrowth - all of which had to be removed from the road before the truck could go on. The fully crossings got negligible much work. The perch flows thru a strip of flood forest (sink) at Steppards battery. The altitude appears from my barometer to be only 100 feet higher than other at Coen - or 700-800 feet. Got out a few times.