Re SUNNY CREEK - John Adams in "So Tall the Trees" (1978), page 66 states: "Sunny Creek was another promising township but it failed to develop because of the proximity of its larger neighbours.". On page 67, Adams continues: "Sunny Creek, named in contrast to the nearby Shady Creek, cuts a course from the Strzelecki Hills in Trafalgar South and enters the swamp west of Trafalgar. Here in 1876 a reserve was marked out for a township at the point where the railway crossed the creek. Blocks of between 8 to 12 or more hectares were laid out, and made available for settlement from October 1879. Some 27 houses were built here in the form of a village settlement ... There had been a fervent hope that a station would be erected here but the close handy villages of Trafalgar and Waterloo [Yarragon] prevented such a move. Consequently Sunny Creek had little opportunity to develop into a full scale township as intended ... The hopes for a station went on into the 1880s ... Eventually in 1891 the Railways erected a siding about 1 km west of the original station site on the creek. The siding still exists today as a widening of the Princes Highway about halfway between Trafalgar and Yarragon ..." Walter Savige