The flood in late March 1890 forced the Hill family to leave Bullamon homestead and camp on a nearby sandhill. During this flood water reached a depth of 2 feet 2 inches (about 66cm) in the store at Bullamon Head Station and has not been equalled since, even by the major floods of 1974 and 2010.

Mary Annie Mackay, born in March 1865, was the first of Duncan and Leonora Mackay’s children to be born at Bullamon. (Her birthplace was described as “Gerar, Mooni Creek”: Gerar was the name of the run on which the homestead stood: at that time, and the river was then called a creek.) Her memories of childhood at Bullamon, documented by one of her nephews, are an invaluable account of life at Bullamon homestead in the 1860s and 70s.

Many current properties in the Thallon district were part of Bullamon Station. One of them is Eumerella, won by Vaughan Baker’s grandfather in a ballot in 1923 and now owned by Vaughan and other members of his family.

Local people have many different memories of Bullamon during Biddy Brown’s time, many including the garden.

Vaughan Baker has lived at Bullamon since 1967, initially in the old homestead. Following are some of his memories of Bullamon in his childhood and how the local flora and fauna has changed in the meantime.