Don't you often wonder how the names of some places, creeks, rivers etc come about??
What are some of the funniest or stange names of CREEKs you have come across in your travels.
We've all crossed a Sheep Station Creek or a Sandy Creek or even Dead Mans Gully which are pretty common so let's look past the ordinary.
Off hand the only one that comes to my mind is Mary Smokes Creek.....if I remembered it correctly....LOL
Cheers B
granite53 said
02:58 PM Nov 9, 2011
Mutt Mutt Billy creek near Cullerin outside Goulburn NSW Les
Happywanderer said
07:53 PM Nov 9, 2011
I have seen some funny ones at times. Wish I had written them down as can't remember them now.
rockylizard said
08:13 PM Nov 9, 2011
Gday...
Some enterprising travellers, I think about 20 years ago, decided to do the "travel around OZ" trip ... and to make it interesting, they took a photo of every creek sign they encountered on their travels.
After they did the trip, they had so many interesting, funny, strange, unexplainable etc names, they published a book. It apparently sold well although I never did buy it .... browsed it often in the bookshop though
I always thought it could be something I could do just for the fun.....but I keep forgetting to stop and take the photo.
I am forever amused on how many One Mile, Two Mile, Three Mile, Four Mile etc etc etc creeks there are.
Cheers
John
pauline said
08:56 PM Nov 9, 2011
Not really a creek but a crossing, is there a difference, best I could come up with...........
I've seen similiar pauline and always wondered how easy it would be for a dead horse to get across.
Beth54 said
09:03 PM Nov 9, 2011
Like HW, I can't remember any, but I know I've seen plenty of funny ones.
As an aside...Cape York has many dips in the road, and someone, or some people, had added an extra word on the 'DIP' signs...eg: bickies &...skinny...etc. Some were very funny. I wish I'd taken photo's of them.
I'd add it to this picture if I knew how.
pauline said
09:04 PM Nov 9, 2011
VERY clever HW, never thought of it that way but now you mention it...................
Happywanderer said
09:07 PM Nov 9, 2011
Now you've got me wanting to get out with the camera and find my own. I always find when something interesting appears that I would like to photograph, there is no where to pull over and park safely. Very annoying.
Beth54 said
09:15 PM Nov 9, 2011
Happywanderer wrote:
Now you've got me wanting to get out with the camera and find my own. I always find when something interesting appears that I would like to photograph, there is no where to pull over and park safely. Very annoying.
My friend has an unusual surname, and I came across a street name the same, so I took a photo to show her when I got back. So she tells everyone that street was named after them.
pauline said
09:26 PM Nov 9, 2011
And why not, that's what I say..................
Zoomtopz said
10:35 PM Nov 9, 2011
There is a "dead mans corner" on Armidale rd @ CloudsCk -
apparently back in th days of 'swaggies' - this old bloke died ,
some road workers found him , got th copper out from Dorrigo .
He did a bit of a search , could not find anything on him , so th
roadworkers buried there - hence dead mans corner .
That's what I'm talkin' 'bout Ralph! Except it's hard to read sideways.
ChiChi1 said
11:04 AM Nov 10, 2011
Murdering Hut creek near Rutherglen Vic. Have often driven over it and wondered what the storey was..Googled and found out....
" in 1999, in Rutherglen, there was only ever a few houses back then, and there was a family, the Moores. They owned a farm, the only farm for miles away. And one day the man, Robert Moore, killed his whole family, with a machete. He insisted that voices told him to do it... And a few months later, he shot himself. And now whenever you drive over this, Murdering Hut Creek, they proclaim that you can sometimes see him in the late afternoon, standing on the creek, holding a machete above his head, dripping with blood, and as you drive closer, he brings it down, and it actually looks like he is going to hit you with it.."
pauline said
12:39 PM Nov 10, 2011
I think i'll give that place a miss ChiChi.............
Geoff n Jen said
01:30 PM Nov 10, 2011
Fat hen Creek near Kilkivan, Go figure??
jimricho said
06:18 PM Nov 10, 2011
When I was a kid I used to travel regularly with my parents from Newcastle to Sydney on the old Pacific Hwy and I recall a "Windy Drop Down Creek" (may have been Dropdown, one word). I never could work out how to pronounce "windy"
Geoff n Jen's Fat Hen Creek reminded me of Hen Camp Creek just north of Rollingstone Nth Qld.
03_troopy said
08:52 PM Nov 10, 2011
My mum used to crack me up in the old days travelling around in dad's old Vanguard Spacemaster Panelvan. Us 4 kids in the back, no seat belts, heck, not even any seats in the back. Every time we'd pass a sign that said Sandy Creek, she'd say.. "Ooh look we're back at Sandy creek again". I don't think she realised how many creeks are called Sandy Creek. Another of her classics were the signs that said "I'm a winding road". Or more correctly 1M WINDING ROAD.
pauline said
08:56 PM Nov 10, 2011
Life seemed so much simpler then.........
03_troopy said
09:05 PM Nov 10, 2011
pauline wrote:
Life seemed so much simpler then.........
It sure did Pauline. But I have to admit, that old van is the reason why today I still feel sqeamish when eating liquorice allsorts. Petrol fumes in the back, my sister with a squeamish tummy.. Bleeeccchhhh all over the packet of liquorice allsorts. The ones at the bottom of the bag weren't too bad though.
pauline said
09:08 PM Nov 10, 2011
I know how she felt, I used to get car sick right up till I was 15 and they always put me in the back...............
03_troopy said
09:11 PM Nov 10, 2011
pauline wrote:
I know how she felt, I used to get car sick right up till I was 15 and they always put me in the back...............
Hahaha.. lucky it wasn't in the boot I suppose.. LOL
pauline said
09:13 PM Nov 10, 2011
I think they would have if they could have..............
Sheba said
11:03 PM Nov 10, 2011
Geoff n Jen wrote:
Fat hen Creek near Kilkivan, Go figure??
Might be named after a herb of the same name. See Link below.
Burrumbuttock NSW - supposed to mean 'bullock's backbone'
Chinaman's Knob in VIC and Watanobbi on the cntral coast NSW make me think twice, and then blush, and so does Pimpinbudgie south of Kingaroy on the way to Toowoomba.
sandsmere said
04:05 PM Nov 11, 2011
Murdering creek near Peregian Beach , Qld. .
Another one near Kilkivan is Bongmillerer creek .
Geoff n Jen said
04:20 PM Nov 11, 2011
There must have been a lot of murdering hey
Terro said
04:31 PM Nov 11, 2011
On the highway form Yarra Glen to Yea in Vic there is Rellimeiggam Creek which is Maggie Miller spelled backwards. Who knows how that came about.
Terro.
Pejay said
04:37 PM Nov 11, 2011
If I remember, there is a Murderer's Creek on the way to Bjelke Peterson Dam in SE Qld
Don't you often wonder how the names of some places, creeks, rivers etc come about??
What are some of the funniest or stange names of CREEKs you have come across in your travels.
We've all crossed a Sheep Station Creek or a Sandy Creek or even Dead Mans Gully which are pretty common so let's look past the ordinary.
Off hand the only one that comes to my mind is Mary Smokes Creek.....if I remembered it correctly....LOL
Cheers B
Les
Gday...
Some enterprising travellers, I think about 20 years ago, decided to do the "travel around OZ" trip ... and to make it interesting, they took a photo of every creek sign they encountered on their travels.
After they did the trip, they had so many interesting, funny, strange, unexplainable etc names, they published a book. It apparently sold well although I never did buy it .... browsed it often in the bookshop though
I always thought it could be something I could do just for the fun.....but I keep forgetting to stop and take the photo.
I am forever amused on how many One Mile, Two Mile, Three Mile, Four Mile etc etc etc creeks there are.
Cheers
John
Not really a creek but a crossing, is there a difference, best I could come up with...........
Like HW, I can't remember any, but I know I've seen plenty of funny ones.
As an aside...Cape York has many dips in the road, and someone, or some people, had added an extra word on the 'DIP' signs...eg: bickies &...skinny...etc. Some were very funny. I wish I'd taken photo's of them.
I'd add it to this picture if I knew how.
My friend has an unusual surname, and I came across a street name the same, so I took a photo to show her when I got back. So she tells everyone that street was named after them.
There is a "dead mans corner" on Armidale rd @ CloudsCk -
apparently back in th days of 'swaggies' - this old bloke died ,
some road workers found him , got th copper out from Dorrigo .
He did a bit of a search , could not find anything on him , so th
roadworkers buried there - hence dead mans corner .
True.
Richo
if u are up cape york you can make your own sign
That's what I'm talkin' 'bout Ralph! Except it's hard to read sideways.
Murdering Hut creek near Rutherglen Vic. Have often driven over it and wondered what the storey was..Googled and found out....
" in 1999, in Rutherglen, there was only ever a few houses back then, and there was a family, the Moores.
They owned a farm, the only farm for miles away. And one day the man, Robert Moore, killed his whole family, with a machete. He insisted that voices told him to do it... And a few months later, he shot himself.
And now whenever you drive over this, Murdering Hut Creek, they proclaim that you can sometimes see him in the late afternoon, standing on the creek, holding a machete above his head, dripping with blood, and as you drive closer, he brings it down, and it actually looks like he is going to hit you with it.."
Fat hen Creek near Kilkivan, Go figure??
When I was a kid I used to travel regularly with my parents from Newcastle to Sydney on the old Pacific Hwy and I recall a "Windy Drop Down Creek" (may have been Dropdown, one word). I never could work out how to pronounce "windy"
Geoff n Jen's Fat Hen Creek reminded me of Hen Camp Creek just north of Rollingstone Nth Qld.
It sure did Pauline. But I have to admit, that old van is the reason why today I still feel sqeamish when eating liquorice allsorts. Petrol fumes in the back, my sister with a squeamish tummy.. Bleeeccchhhh all over the packet of liquorice allsorts. The ones at the bottom of the bag weren't too bad though.
Hahaha.. lucky it wasn't in the boot I suppose.. LOL
Burrumbuttock NSW - supposed to mean 'bullock's backbone'
Chinaman's Knob in VIC and Watanobbi on the cntral coast NSW make me think twice, and then blush, and so does Pimpinbudgie south of Kingaroy on the way to Toowoomba.
Murdering creek near Peregian Beach , Qld. .
Another one near Kilkivan is Bongmillerer creek .
There must have been a lot of murdering hey
On the highway form Yarra Glen to Yea in Vic there is Rellimeiggam Creek which is Maggie Miller spelled backwards. Who knows how that came about.
Terro.