Keepashes: This one had me tricked for a long time, picture-wise, since Queensland Cricket and the Brisbane City Council refer to it as Deagon Recreation Reserve. My main reason for choosing it was in response to Strolls being exiled in Queensland and referring to small poxy grounds, and I wanted to quote the
Moreton Bay song, which begins: "But of all places of condemnation / And penal stations in New South Wales / To Moreton Bay I have found no equal / Excessive tyranny each day prevails" . (Note that
New South Wales used to cover all the east, including New Zealand, so Moreton Bay
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moreton_Bay was part of the penal settlement of NSW when the song was written: see the dynamic map at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_and ... _Australia ).
Moreton Bay
http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=-27.32288 ... =0&m=b&v=8 (map centred on Deagon Reserve) gives its name to the tree
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moreton_Bay_Fig on which one of the choir is swinging in that Qantas advertisement I posted above. This is not a bright thing to do, since the limbs are heavy and weak, and prone to falling. The commandant who is killed in the song (to the joy of the convicts), Patrick Logan, is decribed here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Logan and the most famous descendant of the Quandamooka (probably) people who speared him is described here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oodgeroo_Noonuccal ).
The Sandgate-Redgate CC is somewhat less famous, but it has contributed many to Queensland over the years
http://redcliffe-and-bayside-herald.whe ... e-expands/ , notably Nathan Rimmington
http://www.cricinfo.com/australia/conte ... /7443.html , and Glen Batticciotto
http://www.cricinfo.com/australia/conte ... /4260.html. Be sure to look at their clubhouse makeover on their home page and the other photos of the dust storm on their news page.
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Now for the musical interlude. You can read the lyrics and play the tune and read the story of the song at
http://folkstream.com/061.htm This is part of the Irish heritage that accounts for a lot of what we call "Australian", including a certain attitude problem that 606 posters occasionally refer to during England-Australia contests.