Crabbes Creek

Crabbes Creek runs from Yelgun ridge down to Wooyung. This is a very significant area for local Bundjalung who acknowledge it as the pathway of the sun. It is where the Ancestral beings created some of the first ceremonies for all of the Bundjalung.

Crabbes Creek got its name after landholder Robert Crabbe, in the late 1800s. Before this, the local area was known as “Pimble” by the local Aboriginal people of the Moorung Moobar Clan of the Bundjalung Nation.

Sand mining, cane and dairy farming, and growing bananas were common at Crabbes Creek. The area has the distinction of having the first Macedonian Orthodox Church in Australia, built in 1949, which is still standing and is now the community hall.

Today Crabbes Creek is home to almost 300 people who form a vibrant community.

To learn more about the historic role of Crabbes Creek Station on the Tweed section of the Railway, check out Tweed Regional Museum for more interesting stories.