Murder

Murdering Creek runs into the southern part of Lake Weyba, just south of Noosa. It's one of the massacre sites marked on the Colonial Frontiers Massacre Map, produced recently by researchers at Newcastle University. See here: https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/map.php

I've been rather curious about this place for a while. One local history talk I'd attended seemed to suggest that all had been sweet on the Sunshine Coast between settlers and indigenous inhabitants. Another talk told me about this Murdering Creek episode. It was fairly well documented, and the name sort of gives the game away anyway.

Then I came across an article in Noosa Today: https://noosatoday.com.au/news/23-07-2022/murdering-creek-mystery/  which makes it all a bit muddier again.

 

I took myself in there this morning. It's a dark and spooky place, but beautiful too. As I'd been told, there's no official acknowledgement or educational plaque or monument or anything about what may have happened here. 

But I did find this very moving unofficial memorial. And it even hints at a reason for any push there might be to change the name: real estate values!

Lake Weyba, near Murdering Creek