All the creeks have roadsigns giving their (white settler) names. As I've been going along I've made a note of the ones which interested me most. They're here in the order I came across them, or remembered them! Some are geographically descriptive and some hint at some occurrence. I imagine conversations like:
'I'll meet you at the creek'
'Which one?'
'That one where we found the dead dog'
Dead Dog
Le Souef (probably a family name)
Capsize
On the road to Laura:
Hell's Gate
Double Barrel
Earl
Quartz
Ruth
Gallop
Devil Devil - the repetition is interesting
Bower bird
Spear
Weedy St George
Stony St George
Pipeclay
Scharlottenburg
Liverpool
Limbo
Corduroy
Raspberry
Chinaman
Christmas sign decorated with lights
Easter sign decorated with a picture of an egg
Seven Mile (and many variants! These intrigue me ... measured to and from where?)
Gladstone
Palmerston
An interesting collection between Springsure and Rollerston:
Orion
Alderbaren
Meteor
Little Roundstone
Conciliation - I wish I knew the story
Clovernook
Boundary
Tea Tree
Three Moon (at Cania)
Ivory
Emu
Lambing
Blunder (how I laughed as I spotted this while navigating the toll roads around Brisbane)
And also (not creeks)
Grateful Ponds
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