“This creek, popular with fishermen, also is a good spot to sight ospreys and bald eagles.”

“Perhaps a hundred yards into the trees, a wide, shallow creek drained from some unknown point in the forest into the lake.”

“One summer day, I spent several idle moments beside a still, shallow creek near my home, trying to goad the water striders there into flying.”

“During the wet season, a network of creeks, water channels and muddy tracks connect villages.”

“In July 1870 very heavy rains fell flooding many of the creeks and nearly twenty Aborigines drowned when the Kopperamanna Creek flooded.”

“Found all over the country, the night herons can be sighted normally near jheels, inland waters, tidal creeks and mangrove swamps.”