Day 18. Bacon and eggs for breakfast by the campfire at Negri River, then onto the Duncan Road again south 300 km to explore. We passed through aboriginal land to stop at the old Ord River Homestead ruins. Ross worked out of here in the mid 1960s when it was a thriving Vesteys cattle station. A visit to the old cemetery showed an old headstone of Tudor Shadforth killed by blacks in 1890 aged 27.

From the old homestead we could see distant views of the magnificent Bungle Bungles range. We pushed on through dry desolate country to the Nicholson Homestead in the blacksoil wide grasslands belt and onto Halls Creek for the night. We decided to spoil ourselves with a night in a Best Western with pizzas in the bar. Such luxury after several nights camping out under the stars!