Tues Oct 12. Lift for Rifle Beck at 11 a.m.; and 11.30. My Mr. Watts very cordial. Work out or damned up lake in some from 1/2 to 1/4 brought lunch. The creek normally dried up before the dam was built. There is a catchment area of 16 sq. miles, with water caught lasts over several dry seasons. Last year the dam did not overflow. It has overflowed to a depth of 4 feet. Going up the lake, which winds among steep rocky hills, we saw 2 gray, white cheetahed Wallabys. Watts says that a hunter recently shot one 80 animal of which 3 were gray kangaroos, the rest wallabies. No red wallaby found. Some quite dark-blackish. Have found 3 or 4 wallaby skulls up gully Spirit Creek, in which is a tiny perpetual spring. Tapping: - 25 maid traps up said gully any rocks & spinifex grass. (No catch); also 25 above the dam, partly high up at the foot of the cliffs, partly at the highwater mark of the lake (briefly 1922) (and more). A few traps in bush (1 none). Evening: with flashlight saw 4 sick wallabies at water. After we found another in my steel trap. Dr. Watts trapped yet another using lettuce & bread for bait, 2 more. At dusk saw one bat - missed it. Wed. Oct 13. Ran tracks, but on to two small caves seen in side of hill edge 5/4 mile above dam. First Cave: - Hummingbird remains of 2 wallabies, "joy" wallaby, 1 kid. Second cave: - Skin & other portion; two large gray Tapirawns, toll collected. The mice parturied above a pale gray form, larger than house mice, with the bases of the tails fattened - thick- skinned. Perhaps a water storage mechanism. No tails drawn out clearly & the scaly + muscular skin not such thickness. They reminded me of Lemmings. Ratlike form seen across top of hills in "fresh tracks", His mice. Skinnier mice, bats, wallabies. Dust takes carries Tommas. "Regans rat" said by Watts to occur out on the spinifex flat, "Patricial" at Quarry.