Re: Pride and Arrogance

[Mark Salkeld]

Brett Coster wrote:

> > Behalf Of Alberto Monteiro
> >

> * Eight Mile Creek is a quintessential Aussie name. When driving anywhere
> you'll every so often cross a bridge over some dried up straggly bit of
> water with a sign saying "Six Mile Creek" or whatever number, up to about
> 11. Quite often, on the one road two thirds of any number of bridges will be
> over a something-mile creek. I can only assume the earlier pioneers were
> challenged for names at the time.

'90 Mile Beach' is my favourite. i think it must have been some sort of law back
in the 1800's that each state and territory in Australia have one! either that
or our early explorers had some sort of strange in-house joke going on ...