Eatser Road Trip

[Dean Harrison]

We partook on a 3 day road trip along the tourist roads between Beerwah and Nanango to locations of interest from reports over the last few years. For the first time we actually spent the nights in Motel rooms, which was rather 'novel'.

Below are various random shots, mostly without captions. Uneventful outing in terms of Yowie activity, however a lot of entertainment and we enjoyed a great Weekend away.

In our company we had, Mad Mike Williams, Mike Bloody Williams, Mike "I can't believe it's not butter" Williams, Mike "The sleeping Human chainsaw" Williams, Mike "I need a Decaf Latte'" Williams, Mike "Are we there yet?" Williams, Mike "Does this manicure make me look fat" Williams, Mike "no photo's until you speak to my agent" Williams, Steve "Has Mike ever heard of deodorant?" Smith, my good self and Lasso "Tell me that Mike is coming next time" Brown....

Again, a great time away. Many laughs, terrific company and engaging conversations.

Apologies for the lack of dialogue explain photo's, however just arrived home and desperately require sleep.

DMH

[Jo Blose]

Nice typo Dean! We certainly did eatser a lot of exotic foods on this particular road trip! None more exotic though than milk chocolate in the shape of little eggs! (although I believe you preferred the fried mushrooms!)

It was a real treat having mighty Mike on this venture with us and his travelling emporium of cutting edge scientific devices to supplement our latest weekend of bush time chest thumping! As a child I often read of geiger counters in popular comic books, and now thanks to Mike, can say I've handled a working one and seen it in action all in the name of yowie research! Geiger counters accurately measure radiation and some studies suggest a possible link between radiation, locations, and unusual phenomena. We decided it would be interesting to see if any of the various locations we visited, had any radiation readings higher or lower than the expected normal range for any location. The results were precisely as expected!

Mike followed this up with a lens contraption on his video camera which increased the zoom capability thereof to an extent I would expect to see on professional television cameras. While zooming in on a far distant tree, the ramifications had that tree been a hairy-bi-ped were just staggering.


Thankfully, Mike also threw in his brand new hand-held GPS which we were able to accurately record the deployment positions of our latest set of 8mp trail cameras and our black sheep, dodgy little 5mp one. Given our unfamiliarity of, and negotiation of the rugged terrain through deep flowing creeks and around overgrown spiders in their concentric webs in getting to these spots, if not for Mike's GPS, we simply wouldn't ever find those cams again!

Our noses led us to a magnificent rocky outcrop overlooking a very steep valley and where we set up camp for a night. This rocky outcrop (as can be seen from the photos), bore a remarkable resemblance to a particular rocky outcrop Dean, Mike, and I have been to numerous times over the years in the Blue Mountains of NSW, under the guidance of Neil Frost. Three cheers to Fat Foot! For some reason, pine forestry and not native Autraliana flora, featured prominently in many of the hot spot locations on this trip. So much so, I'm surprised I haven't had any pine needle nightmares! As Lissa will attest, motels and yowie reserach can go together, as we awoke each morning spritely and refreshed from a good night's sleep, and eager to tackle the next day's mountain with gusto!

Though short on Yowie activity, we did find some interestingly cleared areas and trails worthy of our attention. As Dean says, our road trip was expectedly high on laughs, in-depth conversations, and we all had a blast!! Those spiders no doubt shared in some of the laughs!

[AL Pitman]

Hey Guys

That is not a flying saucer launch pad on Mikes cranium , it is I susspect a solar panel for his love machine .

[Heffo7]

Thanks for those pics Dean. Just went on a road trip from Grafton to Agnes Waters & 1770 myself a couple of weeks ago. Beautiful part of the world that's for sure.

Sorry for the late Welcome to you too, Al. Nice to see someone else from my neck of the woods (so to speak).

Chris

[Dean Harrison]

Thanks for dropping bye Chris. That was a long drive.

Hope to hear more form you.

DMH

[Ella]

What a beautiful forest! And thanks, Dean for the good humor about Mike. It's all for a good cause, as I'm sure I'm not the only one who needed a good laugh.

[SAB 8]

In our company we had, Mad Mike Williams, Mike Bloody Williams, Mike "I can't believe it's not butter" Williams, Mike "The sleeping Human chainsaw" Williams, Mike "I need a Decaf Latte'" Williams, Mike "Are we there yet?" Williams, Mike "Does this manicure make me look fat" Williams, Mike "no photo's until you speak to my agent" Williams, Steve "Has Mike ever heard of deodorant?" Smith, my good self and Lasso "Tell me that Mike is coming next time" Brown....

In light of the amount of gadgets Mike has I think you should add Mike "Go Go Gadget Arm" Williams to the list.

It was a real treat having mighty Mike on this venture with us and his travelling emporium of cutting edge scientific devices to supplement our latest weekend of bush time chest thumping! As a child I often read of geiger counters in popular comic books, and now thanks to Mike, can say I've handled a working one and seen it in action all in the name of yowie research! Geiger counters accurately measure radiation and some studies suggest a possible link between radiation, locations, and unusual phenomena. We decided it would be interesting to see if any of the various locations we visited, had any radiation readings higher or lower than the expected normal range for any location. The results were precisely as expected!

Very interesting. This reminds me of claims associated with magnetic abnormalities and the paranormal. In relation to Yowies there was discussion of magnetic abnormalities in regards to the Coona case where apparently members of the Army on field exercises have become lost due to wayward compasses.

Mike I think its time a Magnetometer joined your gadget collection!

[Dean Harrison]

Hi Scotty,

I think that the main magnetic abnormalities was attributed to the fact that Mike didn't change his clothes in 3 days.

DMH

[Ella]

ROTFL!!!!!

[Jo Blose]

Yes, 3 days of travelling, culminating in a pit stop at the site of Dean's yowie attack before heading home! Mike jumped at the chance of finally seeing the place first-hand with his geiger counter, and doing a walk-through interview with Dean with the help of Lissa's steady camera hand. We had time for a quick scout of the area which was disapointing for lack of possible evidence, but is consistent with the lack of reports in the area since Dean's encounter. More pine trees, but great fun to re-live the incident in broad-daylight!!

On that note, I have recently had it confirmed my long distance night vision in particular leaves a lot to be desired, including spectacles. In reminiscing Dean's incident in light of my current eyesight condition, it is now clear why I did not see what Dean, Mikka, and Neil saw, with the white eyes seen in the distance in the pitch black of night. A mystery solved!

[mikka]

Sounds like you guys had fun