Arrive at Marrakai homestead. Meet Bill Wyatt, wife and two children. Together with three others sleep on the verandah. Author sleeps under a mosquito-net and describes the conditions during the night's sleep, ie the visits by rats, bandicoots and geckos.

1. Photograph: ‘Marrakai Homestead, and goats’

Places mentioned: Marrakai Homestead (NT)

People mentioned: Bill [William] Wyatt; Ken Lindsay

Fauna mentioned: Rats (Rodentia); Bandicoots (Peramelemorphia); Geckos; Goats (Capra hircus)

Photo number/s as per Journal and Index of Photographs: 293