94. Our movements during the next few weeks finally have arrived at the point where they can be set down in some form of time-table. They will vary, of course, according to the presence or absence of specimens in the several areas but as near as we can determine at present, there are as follows: Leave Iron Range and arrive Mount Tozer June 28th Work Mount Tozer until July 11th " Leave Mount Tozer and arrive Brown's Creek " 12th " Work Brown's Creek until " 18th xxx " Return to Iron Range " 19th " Remain at Iron Range for final packing until " 21st xxx Brown's Creek is a tributary of the Pascoe River, west of Mount Tozer. The Pascoe River opens into Weymouth Bay about ten miles northwest of Portland Roads. Leave Iron Range and arrive Wenlock July 22nd Work Wenlock until " 26th " Leave Wenlock for Coen via Archer River " 27th " Arrive Coen " 28th After our arrival at Coen we become vague again because the year will have so advanced by then that such things as our return passage may have a bearing on the length of our camps. Roughly it has been suggested that we spend four weeks around Coen, allow a week for the trip to Cooktown and six weeks for the Cooktown area and the journey down to Cairns, which of course brings things to an end and turns the Cape York expedition into a thing of history. It is good to have everything so settled at last that one can set it down on paper with some hope of being more or less accurate. The thing to do now for all concerned is to join in prayer that there will be no such delay in Cairns on our return as there was on our arrival at that salubrious spot. Monday, 21 June 1948. My morning was spent mainly in packing for our short stay at the Airport and also in preparing things to be shipped out at the end of this week to Cairns. Just before lunch Barrie Fisher, on whom we are relying to get us to the Airport, came in to say that his truck has broken down and a tire, inner and outer, was badly ripped. It makes our trip a little doubtful but he will be in later to report whether or not we can make it. In the afternoon I finished up some letters and correspondence with B-P as there may be little time after the arrival of the mail on Wednesday. I plan to return to camp with the mail but there will be only Wednesday night in which to attend to anything that must be done and ready for the southbound plane on Thursday morning. Before starting the trip down to Coen, via Wenlock and the Archer River, it is proposed to cut everything down to the bone; clothing, supplies, ammuni- tion, everything that is not practically essential, is to be shipped from Post- land Roads down to Cairns though I think some of it should be diverted to Cook- town, where we shall be able to see it well, when we arrive there. There is a certain amount of stuff now in Cairns which was to be shipped up to Cooktown; that will not be necessary and the costs of the shipping will be saved if we have enough surplus to send there from our present supplies. At the moment it looks as though we may run a few dollars over our budget, which is a pity. It has been occasioned by our extra long stay at Cairns and accumulated hotel bills - not our fault but a pity none the less. I had so hoped to be under it.