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  • Day 107

    Creeks

    June 29, 2017 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C

    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
    Dead Bullock Gully
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