A reasonably easy drive day with a lunch stop at Halls Creek, an old gold rush town with not much going for it, but it has a decent visitor centre. On to Spring Creek..a beautiful little spot just a off the highway. Not an official campsite with just two other sets of travellers. We have a campfire and break out the instruments. Feel more like true travellers here.

Before bed, Angie visits the bush to discover a very large toad. after much head scratching we work out it is most likely a cane toad...really big and ugly. what to do...well we put it in a bucket and put a plastic bag over the end to prevent its escape. Angie wants to check it out with the local rangers to check they know it's here and what to do to kill it humanely. how little we know! Next morning some road workmen come down to our site with a grader and they say it's clearly a cane toad and one of them simply stamps on it hard and kicks it away. Utter disgust all round, but it didn't feel a thing. Angie is now avowed to do everything to rid WA of cane toads.

Before leaving our little spot, we catch sight of a Jabiru (a fairly rare stork like bird) in the stream (later find to be the Ord River beginnings).