Breakfast Time creek
Submitted: Wednesday, Jun 28, 2017 at 08:20
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Ok a slow day...
As far as I can determine from google and Wikipedia, there are 2 Breakfast Time creeks in the world. Both are on the
Oodnadatta track. One near
William creek, and the other near the Flinders Rangers. They don't appear to be connected.
Does anyone know the origin of the naming of these creeks? ( apart from the obvious that they were both found at breakfast time).
Lastly I recall seeing photos of the
Flinders Ranges one going from dry to flooding on a
forum recently. Does anyone know where those photos are located?
Reply By: Ron N - Wednesday, Jun 28, 2017 at 12:33
Wednesday, Jun 28, 2017 at 12:33
Some good reading on nomenclature history of place names in S.A. in the link below.
Nomenclature history in S.A.
Bullock-team drivers and Camel-team drivers were the originators of most of the early Anglo-Saxon names for many lesser-known locations in Australia, because they were, very often, the first, and the most regular travellers, to or through the location.
They were also the ones most familiar with the relatively-unexplored terrain, and the ones most questioned about the "tiger country" terrain and features.
Pioneering surveyors were the next source of naming for features, as they surveyed new country for development.
Quite often, the surveyors sought out locals to gather names for features - and it was often bullockys and pioneering locals who provided the local name to surveyors!
In lesser numbers of cases, Aboriginals provided the name, and it was anglicised.
Breakfast Time
Creek gets a mention in the link above, as
well as bullock-team drivers.
Below is a very old lantern-slide photo of one of the Breakfast Time creeks, possibly taken by Flynn of the Inland.
I find it interesting that he appears to be using the
creek bed as a track.
I would have thought that most
creek beds would have been too soft for the skinny buggy tyres.
Maybe he was only camped there overnight, but I would have expected Flynn to be too bush-savvy to
camp in creeks in the Outback.
Breakfast Time Creek
Cheers, Ron.
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