Trip by Qantas Airways; DeHaviland 4 engines biplane (DH86). R.M.A. Canberra. Captain C. R. Gurney; Chief Officer K. C. Berry. Brisbane to Batavia, March 23rd to April 2nd, 1938. March 23rd. 6.54 Take off Archerfield. Savannah forest ??? covers ridgy coast plain. Away south sun-patched border mountain. Forest brown in color. Dull cloudy morning, flying in and out of clouds at 1000 feet. 7.4-7.8 Over estimated valley of Marburg; intensely tilled patchwork and many dams and broken water. 7.10 Rain forest with r.f. in few remnants showing as dark green patches between farms. Lockyer Creek winding through another close settled area. Larger farms and black soil, new fallow. 7.23 Must have crossed main range in clouds for now flying down country, closely settled and a close pattern of brown and black soil at first. 7.28 Ploughed land has a flocculated appearance. Erosion(?) Farms fewer, ridgy cou country; farms, a meandering stream showing as a narrow strip of green gallery? wood winds through extensive area, practically treeless straw-colored plain. A low range rises from dark timbered country beyond plain. 7.35 Railway indicated by a straight strip of denser timber 1 mile past. Country o open savannah, grey barked trees; patches of dark grey scrub (Acacia) Country much altered by ring barking. 7.38 Dalby: water tower and green chlorinated water in town baths. 7.45 Entering on part very large area timbered country. Red brown of burnt under-growth showing under trees. Open savannah forest of varying density and rather round patches of grey Acacia scrub. on sita Gimbour Plain? 7.50 Over a running creek brownish water. Landscape an intricate pattern ??? ringbakked areas in darker virgin S.F. Country greatly altered by ringbarking; thinning or total destruction of trees. 7.54 La rge area ???-???scrub, virgin state.