12.30 Left Day Waters. Water for 6 months in narrow yellow holes held by conglomerate bass in creek. Creek with small river gums. Timber box with ironwood, etc. Grasses Chrysopogon (br) to 8 feet, forest Mitchell, some Themeda (4 feet), brown Pollima sp; Gravina Cr. as shrub. Coast country. Rainfall about 26 inches. The patches of dark timber small now and much scattered. 12.37 Open forest patches of a glaucous Eucalyptus (broad-leafed box or Ironbark) Soil of this country generally yellow-grey. 12.45 Everywhere seemingly low very open forest with no creeks. Soil reddish (fine sand?) E. papuana common. 12.50 Dropped mail at Birdum (end of Darwin railway). Unbroken forest all round. 12.57 At 3000 feet; over group of five blackish water holes with trees growing in them. 1.7 Big swamp 3 miles to left Crossing fair sized river with many holes full of water. At 6-7000 feet. Country all forest. View rather limited by haze. (Western creek or Roper Creek) 1.17 Big swamp 3 miles to left. 1.20 All forest with narrow treeless flats along creeks. Water in all of numerous creeks draining NW (Kathrine). Numerous patches darker, usually dense timber (probably lancewood) 1.40 Crossed Kathrine River 1 mile above township. Many clearings along river flats above and below town (peanuts). First farms since Roma. About 2-3 miles past K. we begin to cross a large hilly patch scarred in all directions with green lines of grass. 1.49 Another clear running river going to Daly (Pine Creek). Some scattered small buildings (miners?) in hills. 1.54 Another big running creek to Daly. All ridgy country since Kathrine, drained by more and more creeks as we go along. 2.0 Pine Creek fair sized township, old mine dumps, aerodrome, big square dam clear water near creek. Creek smoother than others between here and Kathrine. 2.2 A group of apparently flat-topped hills with scarped tops much higher than surrounding country just W across railway.