The distance from Lockerbie to our camp on Naru Point, in New- castle Bay is perhaps about 12 miles, but the cyclone of last January left many trees over the road, and it was about 1 o'clock when we ar- ri elationship with a driver more tmid than Holland, or a truck less sturdy than his Canadian built army 4 x 4, we would have been tireder men this evening. We went over everything the truck could climb, knock down, or crush with its weight. From the sawmill the road (Jardine's old Somerset to Lockerbie road) passed through the Big Scrub on top of the backbone of the Pen- insula to a point about 8 miles from Somerset, where we came to the first of several savanna forest pockets surrounded by rain forest. About 3 miles from Somerset we left the fairly well defined old road in savanna- forest and struck south to connect with an old road cut through a strip of rain forest near Lake Borento (Bronto on the military map). Holland misjudged by about 1/2 mile. While walking east through the rain forestlowers, he and I started up a small mob of wild cattle, and lying in the track, where we struck it, was a split bag with someone's lunch in it. There were horse tracks too. The corned beef fritters in the bag were fresh. The owner (Gibson of Roma Flat, according to Holland) had been there yesterday, hunting beef, Paused only long enough to drink, and make a few photos, at Lake Boronto. A deep looking, roughly circular body of water ca. 1/4 mile across, open but for some sedgy growths here and there, and surrounded on three sides by low sandy ridges. No water fowl seen. From the lake almost to the coast we followed a narrow strip of sandy savanna forest, trending SE, with rain forest to the north and dune scrub to the south. Got stuck in a deep sandy gully about 1/4 mile from the beach; lifted the bogged hind wheel with lever and fulcrum. Then passed through a narrow strip of rain forest to emerge on a "belly point" covered with bluish short grass - Naru Point (Narau Point according to the army map makers). Standing right out in the open on Naru Point was a little hut of galvanised iron, about 6 by 6, with a rusted stove in it, and beside it some poles on the ground which may have been part of a tent rig. The army had a searchlight position there during the war. We rigged our camp in the shelter of sprawling low windbeaten trees on the sand dunes immediately south of the point. The kitchen fly and the mammal dept. on one dune, my establishment on the next dune, and the boys tent on the third. Little streams running between the dunes, and edged with pandans, provide water somewhat peat stained but good to drink. Lunch over, Holland the two boys went out for tent poles while the rest of us carried the gear to the tent sites, and by dark we had camp in order. Monday May 10: Have been too busy with plants to write notes since the day of our arrival at Newcastle Bay. Until this evening I have had left over collec- tions to prepare after the evening meal. Today was rainy, so I collected in a wet hollow behind the camp dunes and was through with preparations by 5 o'clock.