Candoal state forest NSW and Koala as food source

[rodbenfield59]

Hi everyone my name is Rod and i am new to posting on this forum , i was just curious if Dean or anyone has looked at places like Candoal state forest that backs on to Brooms head in NSW . I was just asking because i have had a number of sightings heard wood knocks and have seen multiple signs down that way ,i would be interested in any reply or further info from anyone .If anyone would like to start me of i can tell of some pretty good experiences i have had .I am currently living in KIngaroy .I would like to no though if anyone no's if KOALAS are on the menu mmmm ??

[Rusty2]

Hey Rod and welcome aboard !

Personally I dont know much about that area , and there doesnt appear to be anything on this site after searching .

It's my personal belief that these creatures are in most places with water , thick vegetation and plenty of wildlife . Just between you and I , you probably dont want to give up any exact locations just in case you decide to investigate for yourself and dont want your gear knocked off .

I did suspect they were eating flying foxs but now believe that they are eating possums . I cant see why they wouldnt eat koala's if they needed to . Did you find something to suggest they were eating koala's ?
I think we'd all like to hear of your experiences ?
Russell.......

[AL Pitman]

Hi Rod
It is said that A Yowie frequents the headland at Angourie a little further North of Brooms Head but all connected via Yuragir Nat Park , to sit and watch the surfers ??
Check it out I think someone even snapped a blury of the critter .
I would say that whole parcel of coastline and adjacent scrubland would definitely house Yowies !!

[rodbenfield59]

Thanks for the reply guy's . Just to let you all no i have lived of and on in Maclean Yamba area for around 30 years and no the area quite well .The local indigenes folk down there have told me about the Dulagal/Yowie and yes they have been spotted watching surfers at the blue pools Angorie over the years although the forest that connect to the northern end of Brooms head and backs on to Sandon a favorite fishing spot of mine is a lot hotter for sightings signs and some pretty scary experiences ,personel ones .
Always my best experiences have been when i have no camera or even a phone that will take a good photo ,i have tried to use my 5c but it takes the famous blob and i would have better luck asking the big fella to take one of me .It seems that if you have a good camera with you and hold it up to take photo the action becomes to similer to fireing a rifle and they become shy .
stay in touch with any thoughts thanks thanks again

[rodbenfield59]

Hi Russell just in refrence to my comment about koalas as food , I am now living in Kingaroy and i hunt ferral animals for my brother in law who leases a number of properties for his cattle . I have noticed at the start of winter all through the cooler months an increase in koala movement then a sudden lack completly gone these little fellas arn't to worried about the local dingo packs as i have seen them handle large dogs no problem they can be nasty little critters ,the dingo's can climb and hide in trees but are chased down quiet quickly if they try to grab a koala . I put the sudden decrease down to our hairy friends menu preference .

[Rusty2]

That's interesting Rod , I suspect they drag their prey off to a safe place to eat it and have heard a story about indigenous pig hunters finding a pile of assorted bones in a rugged cliff area , being aware of the hairy people they left the area very quickly .
Care to tell us what you've seen Rod , big ones , little ones , black , orange ?
The first one I saw was a silhouette of what looked like an upright walking gorilla on steroids , no neck .

[rodbenfield59]

Like everyone i started out with the idea that there may be something to the hairy man my first encounter was just after i got married and went to visit my parents out the back of Gympie . Dad and myself decided to do a spot of shooting in the early morning , after about 15 mins walk in the hills we heard a roar not like anything i have ever heard before .My old man is ex Air force and as a family we have been posted over seas and have had experience with Asian wildlife i personally have heard Tigers large apes dear and most Ausie wildlife and what i heard that day was something that sent a chill down my spine .I guess thats about when i got interested in our hairy man. I will post more for you guy's.

[rodbenfield59]

What have i seen ? Well it goes like this folks , believeing that there is something i had asked around when i was in NSW and a good mate of mine down there said that he had had experiences with the hairy men for years and he would prove it to me so like any good Ausie bloke i said i'am game ,so he got me in his soaped up monster 4x4 and of we went no camera no phone nothing .All he wanted at the start was to show me what his truck could do and he did it went anywhere we wanted unstoppable . Before i new it we had gone out into the middle of nowhere and it was getting dark and very still . We climbed up the side of a rock face onto a flat clearing where i decided i wanted to have a pee . climbed out of the truck and just lent on the bullbar looking out through the head lights straight at what i thoght was a tree fallen on an angle leaning on a healthy looking gum tree .It was a red brown colour like exposed red wood very still at that stage no movement at all . Now i don't no why he moved but the tree decided to stand up and start to turn to look at us , i was starting to get a bit towie around about now and asked my mate to leave or at least get back in the the truck for saftey sake . My mate just casually smiled and we slowly got back in the truck , i can remember winding the window up and locking the door on my side and i can remember my mate saying to me that if he wants to get in with us do you think a locked car door will stop him.At this point i was not doing to good and was asking to get the hell back down to where we had come from as quick as possible please .The creature we had seen was showing no agression how ever as we were leaving and driving back down the rock face i believe we picked up a couple of his friends who to there delight knowing that they had just scared the c**p out of two little white boy's decided to walk along side the truck while we were trying to go down the rock face pushing fairly large saplings over or just breaking them of at about 5 to 6 ft sometimes with just one hand .I no all this because they where on my side of the truck .When we got in the clear we put the truck into high range and got out of there .I remember getting back on a fire trail in the forestry on a flat even bit of track wich we thought we could take a short cut out so we stopped for a few minutes and got our thoughts together over what had just happend when we started to get large rocks hurled at us hitting the 80 series cruiser on the roof so we decided to do a u turn and go back out the way we came in .When we went to reverse back while still coping the rocks on the roof the brake light was blocked and shone back into the cab of the cruiser we had one of our friends standing behind us .When this happened as you can imagine we were out of there post hast .I can say that there was no fancey driving skills while we were leaving . All of this happened to me around 2009 its taken this long tell this story i don't believe that they were theatening i had the feeling we were being played with and they new exactley what they were doing .Just a little on the size of the one leaning on the tree i would say he would have been about 10 to 12 ft tall he didn't look old but very fit and strong maybe as heavey as a 2 year old Santa g bull if that helps .Just putting it out there by the way i can take anyone back there to see for them selves , I Believe

[Rusty2]

Sounds pretty freaky Rod , I've heard a number of stories about them approaching cars after dusk .
I think your right , they will have a laugh at us at our own expense , I'm sure they must have a sense of humour .
I've also seen a video interview buy Mike Williams , the woman mentioned that one of them "roared" from a distance and that he/she/they actually entered her house .
Thanks for sharing your experience Rod !

[Searcher]

That's one hell of a sighting, Rod! Sure glad Rusty asked...

Reckon the crew from Finding Bigfoot would have loved to have been in the souped up 4WD that day.

Or from our point of view, better still, Rusty with his very best video gear!

[rodbenfield59]

Sorry Sercher if that sounded like a tv show script i have no time for finding bigfoot i saw what i saw ,myself up untill that night was open to skeptic argument now i believe and can take anyone thats game to the same spot . They are still there i have been back during the day with a few muncho type men , gung ho types very tough hard men disbelievers , let me say this they believe now and the hardest man in the group was reduced to a blithering idiot in one afternoon could not ride his tt600 home , anyone else game ?? just a note it has taken me more than 12 mths to start posting what i have seen for you guy's .In saying this they have not been agressive yet but seem to be makeing there territory known to us .My mate and myself where intouch with someone who said they would investigate this about 6 years ago when we reported our main experience to ?? we told them we didn't want any money compensation nor did we want fame all we wanted was for the reserchers to see for themselves and preserve these beings ps sorry if i rambled and hope you all understand thanks.

[macquariedave]

Just a little on the size of the one leaning on the tree i would say he would have been about 10 to 12 ft tall . . .

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[Gavin]

Mad encounter Rod. Don't know about koalas as a food source. I've heard their flesh is very unpalatable because of their diet of eucalyptus. (The only reason they're not extinct already.) Then again hungry is hungry.

[rodbenfield59]

Ok this is for Maquariedave i was going of the size of the 4x4 i was in at the time i guess an 80 series land cruiser with six to 8 inch lift kit and 38 tyres would put it at about 7 1/2 feet to the roof so the animal that i saw had at least 2 feet on top of that so i guess if he didn't stand up straight he might tip 9 1/2 to 10 feet but you try to shake a pee of and look at something the size of a young bull ie 800 to 900 kg and tell me you wouldn't call it 12 ft tall lets face it it was big .

[Searcher]

There is precedence for Yowies as big as Rod described. In the excellent Audio Reports section on this website, check out the highly detailed Jamison Valley sighting where 3 soldiers witnessed a Yowie they described as 11 feet tall in an encounter that lasted several days. It’s definitely a ‘must listen to’ item.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paO71rkcb88

[macquariedave]

There is precedence for Yowies as big as Rod described. In the excellent Audio Reports section on this website, check out the highly detailed Jamison Valley sighting where 3 soldiers witnessed a Yowie they described as 11 feet tall in an encounter that lasted several days. It’s definitely a ‘must listen to’ item.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paO71rkcb88

Fair enough - it's just that I have some initial difficulty wrapping my brain around those kind of heights.

[rodbenfield59]

Thanks for adding that Sercher ,Dave if you can imagine a fallen tree of about 2 1/2 feet across leaning or stuck in the branches of a bigger tree , we were standing when we stopped the truck i reckon about 20 ft from the big fella he was perfectly still laying along the fallen tree makeing it look like a thicker tree than it was , looked like part of it at that stage there was no bad smell eigther we only got a wif of a smell when he moved and stood up wich surprised me because normally i can smell them so you work that one out ???
that i don't no but i am guessing they can give of that stench a bit like a skunk maybe ?

[rodbenfield59]

Searcher i have only just listened to the Jamison valley sighting wow thats how it was / freaky mate thanks for that.

[Yowie bait]

What have i seen ? Well it goes like this folks , believeing that there is something i had asked around when i was in NSW and a good mate of mine down there said that he had had experiences with the hairy men for years and he would prove it to me so like any good Ausie bloke i said i'am game ,so he got me in his soaped up monster 4x4 and of we went no camera no phone nothing .All he wanted at the start was to show me what his truck could do and he did it went anywhere we wanted unstoppable . Before i new it we had gone out into the middle of nowhere and it was getting dark and very still . We climbed up the side of a rock face onto a flat clearing where i decided i wanted to have a pee . climbed out of the truck and just lent on the bullbar looking out through the head lights straight at what i thoght was a tree fallen on an angle leaning on a healthy looking gum tree .It was a red brown colour like exposed red wood very still at that stage no movement at all . Now i don't no why he moved but the tree decided to stand up and start to turn to look at us , i was starting to get a bit towie around about now and asked my mate to leave or at least get back in the the truck for saftey sake . My mate just casually smiled and we slowly got back in the truck , i can remember winding the window up and locking the door on my side and i can remember my mate saying to me that if he wants to get in with us do you think a locked car door will stop him.At this point i was not doing to good and was asking to get the hell back down to where we had come from as quick as possible please .The creature we had seen was showing no agression how ever as we were leaving and driving back down the rock face i believe we picked up a couple of his friends who to there delight knowing that they had just scared the c**p out of two little white boy's decided to walk along side the truck while we were trying to go down the rock face pushing fairly large saplings over or just breaking them of at about 5 to 6 ft sometimes with just one hand .I no all this because they where on my side of the truck .When we got in the clear we put the truck into high range and got out of there .I remember getting back on a fire trail in the forestry on a flat even bit of track wich we thought we could take a short cut out so we stopped for a few minutes and got our thoughts together over what had just happend when we started to get large rocks hurled at us hitting the 80 series cruiser on the roof so we decided to do a u turn and go back out the way we came in .When we went to reverse back while still coping the rocks on the roof the brake light was blocked and shone back into the cab of the cruiser we had one of our friends standing behind us .When this happened as you can imagine we were out of there post hast .I can say that there was no fancey driving skills while we were leaving . All of this happened to me around 2009 its taken this long tell this story i don't believe that they were theatening i had the feeling we were being played with and they new exactley what they were doing .Just a little on the size of the one leaning on the tree i would say he would have been about 10 to 12 ft tall he didn't look old but very fit and strong maybe as heavey as a 2 year old Santa g bull if that helps .Just putting it out there by the way i can take anyone back there to see for them selves , I Believe

This is one of the wildest yowie encounters for sure. I wonder if any forum members took rodbenfield59 up on his offer. Scary stuff!

[rodbenfield59]

Thanks for the reply to what happened to me down at Candole Yowie Bait ,mate no one has taken me up on my offer yet but it still stands .However I believe Brad Piggot and Nigel Francis might be going for a look for them selves down there soon they have been in contact with me and will let me know how they go .Since that post i have had heaps more sightings and experiences with our friends and have collected a few photo's and prints as well.I don't post the photo's on public i have been sending them via email or from my phone.I have been surprised at how much evidence of these blokes is actually around.

[MW83]

Fascinating account there, rodbenfield59. What would be your best photo and what does it seem to show?

[Yowie bait]

Thanks for the reply to what happened to me down at Candole Yowie Bait ,mate no one has taken me up on my offer yet but it still stands .However I believe Brad Piggot and Nigel Francis might be going for a look for them selves down there soon they have been in contact with me and will let me know how they go .Since that post i have had heaps more sightings and experiences with our friends and have collected a few photo's and prints as well.I don't post the photo's on public i have been sending them via email or from my phone.I have been surprised at how much evidence of these blokes is actually around.

Yeah its an awesome story rodbenfield59. Do you still see the same group of yowies? You mustve freaked out when he stood up and then the escort outta there sounds like a wild scene. Reads like a horror story! Your mate sounds like a funny bugger and the tough guy that didnt want to ride home on other trip reminds me of a few blokes i know. Bloody yowies kept me out of the bush at night for last 30 years or so but with reports like this now im gettin keen to maybe go out for a look. I too reckon there is enough evidence out there but even a clear photo or video isnt enough as sceince would want a body to dissect. Seeing is believing for sure!

[Hominidhunter]

Also to maquariedave, I too have issues with the 10-12 foot height thing, but, my old man saw one cross the road while also having a piddle next to his car at night in the mountains behind Coffs Harbour , ha said it took only 2 steps to cross the road , down the bank on one side across the road and into the bushes on the other, he turned grey over night and also summed up the courage to talk about it on ABC radio, he even got a free shirt. But I sometimes think it's like when I see a large male deer with antlers in the rut, looks huge thru the bino's but often when the hunt is over and it's at you're feet, the term "shrinkage" comes to mind. My old man always said 8-10 feet, however , I'd love to go and see rod!

[Yowie bait]

Hey Hominidhunter your dad sounds like a champ for telling his story on abc. Most reports (ive read) range between 7 to 12 feet. The dreamtime legends have some of them at over 20 feet! Makes me wonder how big the young ones are when theyre born. A pregnant yowie would be a sight to behold. Imagine the food cravings!!

[macquariedave]

Hey Hominidhunter your dad sounds like a champ for telling his story on abc. Most reports (ive read) range between 7 to 12 feet. The dreamtime legends have some of them at over 20 feet! Makes me wonder how big the young ones are when theyre born. A pregnant yowie would be a sight to behold. Imagine the food cravings!!

I haven't ever sighted a yowie, and it's a toss-up whether I actually want to do so or not, especially one of the really big ones. Perhaps clearly at a medium distance in broad daylight with a steady video camera with a good zoom.

[Yowie bait]

Hey Hominidhunter your dad sounds like a champ for telling his story on abc. Most reports (ive read) range between 7 to 12 feet. The dreamtime legends have some of them at over 20 feet! Makes me wonder how big the young ones are when theyre born. A pregnant yowie would be a sight to behold. Imagine the food cravings!!

I haven't ever sighted a yowie, and it's a toss-up whether I actually want to do so or not, especially one of the really big ones. Perhaps clearly at a medium distance in broad daylight with a steady video camera with a good zoom.

Yeah it would be nice to get a real good look at one in daylight without having to worry about running away. Even to see one with just a telescope would be great. Seems theres a few people have regular experiences with them and have no worries. Even the junjudee sound scary to me and theyre only a few feet tall!

[VicYowieResearch]

Think I remember hearing a report (on here?) of a Yowie spotted at Nojee down here in Victoria, apparently the lady was out lamping rabbits and her torch lit up a big fella trying to shake something (possum/koala?) out of a tree. It walked off when discovered.

Her report did ring true to me anyway, Nojee is slap bang in the middle of perfect habitat.

[macquariedave]

Think I remember hearing a report (on here?) of a Yowie spotted at Nojee down here in Victoria, apparently the lady was out lamping rabbits and her torch lit up a big fella trying to shake something (possum/koala?) out of a tree. It walked off when discovered.

Her report did ring true to me anyway, Nojee is slap bang in the middle of perfect habitat.

Had to go to Google Earth to find that; correct spelling is "Noojee".

[rodbenfield59]

hey guy's i think i have gone over the height thing before but the big fella had at least 2 to 2 1/2 feet over the top of an 80 series cruiser that had just come second in Australia tough truck challenge about a year before , and i have said this before as well i prefer not to go looking around down there by myself anymore and if that one that hit Dean was that big no wonder he was as broken as he was.Just a love tap and he was very lucky.

[Starks]

Hi Rod,

Mate your encounter sounded amazing, I'm by no means "tough guy" or a "macho man" but I am keen to take you up on the offer if it still stands as I've never seen or experienced anything Yowie related before but do believe that they exist. It would be a bit of a drive from where I am on the Sunshine Coast and for you from Kingaroy to Candole State Forest but i would more than gladly cover the expenses.