At mid-day on 8 March the exploration party - Stirling, Frazer, Garling, Clause, Lieutenant Belches, Mr Midshipman Heathcote, the ship's clerk Augustus Gilbert, 7 seamen and 4 marines - left the "Success" in the cutter and the gig and sailed to "Point Belches". There the boats grounded and, as the party was unable to find a channel, the boats were unloaded and dragged across the shallows until nightfall. While this was being done, Stirling, Frazer and Garling climbed the commanding hill on the west bank, which Stirling named "Mount Eliza" in honour of Eliza Darling, the Governor's wife. While there, Garling painted a watercolour landscape view showing the entrance to the river on the opposite side of Melville Water. Stirling later named this "Canning River" after the British Prime Minister at that time.