A short eight kilometres from the roadside camp we came to the Millstream National Park turnoff. Another 15 kms got us to the old homestead built beside a series of natural springs on the Oakover River.

After a walk around the homestead and natural springs we had lunch courtesy of a bus load of day tourists out from Karratha. One of the tourists was the sister of Nigel Sercombe who was ADFO Dwellingup CALM when I was there 1989-97. Small world.

After lunch and a five km bike ride, Bruce and I rinsed off the dust off in Deep Reach pool of the Fortescue River before returning via the cliff top walk to camp. On the way we saw the patches of dead coolabah trees which, according to ranger Stu from Karijini NP, had died when erosion had cut through the natural bank damming the river in that location and which had provided a local underground shallow water table that the coolibah naturally grow on. When the natural dam broke, the water table disappeared and the coolibah died. Further up were stands of the natural Millstream Palm Livistona alfredii.