Hammond Downs homestead overlooks treacherous Cooper Creek and nearby are the graves of some of the creek's many victims. One is a young man named Easton who, like the Tarquoh stockman, was drowned in a flash flood. Easton's mother, it is said, watched helplessly as her son and four others were swept away. His grave, marked by a modest wooden fence, stands on a sandhill near Easton's Channel, named in his memory.
Hammond Downs homestead overlooks treacherous Cooper Creek and nearby are the graves of some of the creek's many victims. One is a young man named Easton who, like the Tarquoh stockman, was drowned in a flash flood. Easton's mother, it is said, watched helplessly as her son and four others were swept away. His grave, marked by a modest wooden fence, stands on a sandhill near Easton's Channel, named in his memory.
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