10.31 Running right from blue bush area and across open plain. Country to left generally 2/3 timber plain, 1/3 timber. To right 50-50. Timber in big vlocks or continuous banks. 10.43 Country getting noticeably drier. To right timbered red ridges 4/5; to left timber and plain 50-50. 10.48 Another big blue bush swamp to left beam with big well watered creek going rig right and seeming to end nowhere. To right Newcastle Creek rising through timbered ridges. From Alexandria on the dark timbered country always in sight to right and to left often plains to horizon. 10.52 Downs seem to end at Newcastle Creek. Newcastle Water till 11.2 Creek ends ju just past Newcastle Water. Timber stunted box, dead finish? 11.6 Following Newcastle Creek. Creek very full with dark yellow water. Country timbered (mulga?) with patches of plain on both sides. 11.10 Treeless plain. Timber to right 2 miles, to left 8-10 miles. Flying low; soil looks grey under grass. 11.16 End of plain (12-13 miles wide). A windmill at edge of timber to left. A fe bushes and small trees on plain. Grass green; does not look like Mitchell grass. 11.18 To left water hole 1 mile at edge of red timbered ridge reaching to horizon on right. To left across waterhole we fly parallel with a large plain 10 x 3 miles freely dotted with trees. These grey plains dotted with low grey-green trees a new feature (salt bush?) The ridge timber is brown-grey. 11.26 Johnston Lagoon ? 1 1/2 miles to right. 11.30 All timbered country since Johnston Lagoon. Soil red to grey. Two tree brown- communities, one pale green, the other bright green whose occurence does not seem to be governed by soil. The brown always fairly dense, the green sometimes thin- ing out to nearly a plain condition. 11.34 Number of small lagoons and a landing ground. No habitation. Milner's Landing? 11.38 1/2 mile to left some water holes in a flat yellow-red watercourse in timber. 12.0 Reached Day Waters.