Why????

[Bluedog]

It all started with the Patterson Gimlin film of patty.
Must have watched it a hundred of times, then MK blew my mind,
I'm interested into what led you here?
Are you a believer? Sceptic? Or sit on the fence?

[Searcher]

It all started with the Patterson Gimlin film of patty.
Must have watched it a hundred of times, then MK blew my mind,
I'm interested into what led you here?
Are you a believer? Sceptic? Or sit on the fence?

G’day Bluedog.

Those seemingly simple questions are not easy to answer. Yes, I've always thought the PG film was a good place to start. It has been examined in minute detail over the years here on AYR.

Firstly, I class myself as a believer. Why? Whether it's Yowies, Bigfoot, UFOs or Lake and Sea Monsters, I have always wanted answers.
Because of that, over many decades I have got my head deeply into those subjects. I found a strong body of reliable reports that contained evidence I believed was almost impossible to dismiss.

What led me here? Finding AYR around 5 years ago enlightened me to the reality of the Yowie enigma that was taking place virtually in my own backyard. I just had to know more.

Only a very small percentage of the population would have any idea that giant ape like creatures called Yowies are actually roaming around the Australian bush.

I feel privileged that this forum has allowed me to have insight into this highly intriguing mystery.

And as I’ve said before, I log on here most days in the hope of finding news of a major breakthrough… undeniable PROOF of the existence of the Australian Yowie! Perhaps so I can say “I told you so” to some “Doubting Thomas" type friends and rellies. Here’s hoping!

[Slats]

Hey Bluedog
I'm a believer although I have not been fortunate enough to see our hairy mates as yet.
What started it? I guess I have my eldest son to thank for that. I have always been interested in the mysteries of Australia and It all started when we first got pay TV and watching the monster shows with my kids that they asked if we had anything like that here in Australia. I answer yes we have the Yowie. We started googling and came across the AYR site. My son's asked me if we could go out and look for them one night and I thought sure why not.
Well, that fateful night, my youngest son feel asleep in the car and my eldest and I decided to stop on the side of the track and to try some wood Knocks. After our second or third set of knocks my son asked me if had heard that? I answered no what was it? He said he thought he heard a reply.
We knocked again and sure enough a feint knock seemingly in reply, we knocked again this time twice to rule out echo and only one in return. Another knock this time with no response. We freaked out a bit and jumped back into the car and the rest so they is history.
Cheers

[NathanRam]

Gday Bluedog,
Well i started researching them around 4 years ago listening to accounts on youtube.I spent a lot of time on this page before i finally registered to be active.

Back 15 years prior on a suburb bordering Royal National Park friends and I had a collision with a deer beside RNP bushland, the outcome for that is a very interesting story in itself, but now i look back i presume yowie activity in removing the deceased deer. This location has two eyewitness accounts recorded on the AYR main page.

Personally, i love researching yowies and spend time now just walking around in the bush looking, sitting still and listening. Taking photos but i also try to prove them as non yowie related so i dont become blinded into thinking every broken tree or branch is our hairy friend.

Never seen one, but have also heard a return wood knock from the opposite side of the river from where i was. Im guessing he could see me, but i couldnt see him.

My continued research on them is my quest to find answers.
This page is an exceptional wealth of knowledge and research!

[PaulUFO]

For me - I'm ok with all - Yowie, UFO, Ghost stuff etc.

It was A sighting for me, in an area I didn't know they visited at the time, on a hunting trip out west [Coolabah area], ever since then I took interest in them

My 4wd club & I have been camping in a certain area for the last 30 years [Jenolan districts] which has had activity over the time, but we don't go out to specially look for them.

I like to read & hear as many reports as possible on the "Yowie" - but I can't stand most of the youtube c**p.


Cheers,
Paul

[bubble1]

G'day Blue Dog.

I am 53 now, but as a young kid, my old man told me about Bigfoot and I was instantly entranced. Back in 92 I was driving through Northern Calif. and pulled over to fuel up and there was a Bigfoot museum attached and I checked it out. But the clincher was back in 2002 when I saw Neil Frost, on I think, A current affair and I couldn't believe a High School Teacher was hanging his A*** out there about the Yowie's in his neighbourhood in the Blue Mountains. I said to my old man at the time, why would a teacher say these things if they weren't true, as come the next day he was a target for every student, parent and teacher in that school community. To me that took balls of courage and that is why I am here today, I don't post much, but I read pretty well everything on this site and the BFRO sighting log, have watched all the big foot related video's on youtube , incl. Thinker Thunker, David Paulides and my new Fav, Bob Gymlan. I lived in Mapleton for years and have seen some odd things in that forest. I am a true believer, no hard evidence of course, but am fascinated with the General Crypto field, it is a great alternative for how mundane life can be.

Pete

[Mad Academic]

It all started with the Patterson Gimlin film of patty.
Must have watched it a hundred of times, then MK blew my mind,
I'm interested into what led you here?
Are you a believer? Sceptic? Or sit on the fence?

Hi Bluedog,

I am old enough to recall clearly when the Patterson-Gimlin film hit the headlines. So I guess from that time onward I have been keen to know more about such things. Only much, much later (I really can't even remember when) I became aware that we may have an analogous creature(s) living here in OZ.
I simply stumbled on this site surfing the internet some years ago.
I am a retired biologist, with a keen interest in, and respect for our flora and fauna. I simply don't believe the eyewitness reports can all have been faked or mistaken. Here in Australia we don't have animals such as black and brown bears or gorillas to confuse witnesses. So yes, I'm a firm believer.
I would encourage anyone with good evidence to approach a fauna biologist at the closest university. Researchers are guided by evidence and are not as easily cowed or hushed as some would have you believe.
BTW, I believe we both hail from Millicent, in SA? Feel free to pm me anytime.

Cheers,
MA

[Bluedog]

Thanks for the replies, it's interesting to read how and why we arrived here!
It really started for me as a kid of around 12 in my local town library when I found a book on the subject, then came the internet, the freedom to explore the he subject, the opportunity to study the Patterson Gimlin film, M. K. Davis work on the film really blew me away,. Tony Healy and Paul Croppers excellent book. So from casual interest I became a believer.
Having lived in the Cairns region and now the Gold Coast it has given me the opportunity to go "Yowie tripping" visiting the sites of encounters. For example the best of all lookout in Springbrook, where Percy Window had an amazing encounter in the 70,s.
I find the subject fascinating and while I have always been in the flesh and blood camp, Im thinking it's time to look into the paranormal side of the subject.
I'm sure this will open up a whole new perspective on the topic, I think if I'm going keep exploring the subject of Yowie this side of the phenomenon can't be ignored. So here we go further down the "rabbit hole"
Cheers Bluedog.

[sensesonfire]

Congratulations Bluedog, great to see somebody in the flesh and blood camp prepared to expand their insight to a possible supernatural involvement.
You won't be disappointed.

[adventurer]

+1.

[Wingnut]

G’day Bluedog, I’m a believer, guess I’ve always been. Probably more so since last October. A mate and I were just scouting out a new property for deer down around Killarney, it backs onto a national park. We were both out on dawn checking out likely areas when I caught movement on the opposite ridge. It was a good 250-300m away but it wasn’t no deer or anything I’ve seen before. Though my scope I could clearly see a large greyish black yowie type creature. At least 7 foot and a bit more moving down that ridge, we were downwind and didn’t show any sign of smelling or hearing us. Both my mate and I saw it and decided to parallel him guessing his direction of travel. Unfortunately we last sight 5-10 minutes later as it was heading to thick cover. We headed back to where we first saw it to find any tracks or sign. None, couldn’t find a trace! Something that big moving though scrub seems impossible but I saw it plus my mate!
I joined AYR forum to find out more and learn from more experienced people. Been back a few times to that particular property but to date haven’t come across any evidence. I won’t give up till I do..

Thanks for the post Bluedog

Richard

[thehairyone]

Hi all, I have pretty much always been a believer , but when the interweb hit the headlines it gave me somewhere to look for evidence , ive read the books watched the doco's and movies .
As ive gotten older ( im 54 ) I don't care what people think when I say something and I am slowly but surely converting
my wife and kids
I don't class myself as a researcher ( too much work ) this is my hobby albeit a time consuming one
My head tells me that they are "flesh and blood " and ive always believed this but lately ive been questioning this due to experiences and pics ive had / got
I went to see Paul Cropper talk last Sunday and he finished saying " they are real but whats real " , it really set the wheels in motion and now im 50/50 not sure which way to go , I did a lot of thinking on the 10 hour drive home sunday night .
Either way the fun will continue
Cheers Greg

[rowbe]

Hi Bluedog and everyone
I am a believer and open to all possibilities (re flesh and blood or paranormal, etc). Although I have not had an actual yowie sighting myself, I believe I have been a participant in three possible events in the past. In relation to these events, I did not link to yowies until I have recently read related books, forums and sightings, etc. Although these events may not involve hairy ones, they were just too strange to explain. Sorry for the length, trust me I have reduced the content and specifics.
Back in my days as a young teenager, you did not pay any attention to those supposed yowie sightings – they were commonly believed as hoaxes. Yowies were thought of in the same light as “drop bears”, those Australian critters that you informed Swedish and English backpackers to watch out for. Now that was fun! Consequently, when presented with strange occurrences, Yowies were not even considered as potential fact.
Event 1
A mate and myself were camping on the saddle between two hills not far up from a track (approx. 300-500 metres). Nothing really occurred until the fire burned down and we turned in for the night (two-man tent). In the early hours of the morning, I suddenly woke to dead silence, then heard the sound of (I believe) movement in the grass on the hill above us (admittedly could have been anything, roo etc). When I woke my friend, we heard a type of thumping sound then the sound of rocks rolling down (hitting other rocks on the way down) the hill. We thought it was other persons/teenagers, so we got out of the tent, stated a few curses and fired air rifle pellets in the general direction. Then we saw three rocks rolling down the hill towards us which stopped by the base of where our fire was (rocks were roundish and about twelve inches in diameter). We heard heavy running (like a human running not jumping sounds like a roo, etc) from left to right and coming from a horizontal path just up on the slope directly above us. You could see the whole slope of the hill through torch light, but saw nothing or nobody. Then nothing for the rest of the night…we stayed awake the rest of the night and sat by a large fire. I think we burnt every bit of wood/sticks in the near area. We went back home at sunrise.
Event 2
While exploring we followed a small creek bed (exposed rocks like a creek that flowed down a hill during heavy rain from the mountain into the creek) for a hundred metres and found a track in heavy vegetation and lantana, running across the small creek bed. The track ended only about 30 metres in and finished in a small clearing of only about three by two metres. There were tracks (holes) leading into the lantana/rainforest (I believe roo tracks through lantana) – we did not go further as you would have to stoop or crawl through or the rainforest was too thick and dark - no sunlight. When you stood up in the clearing you could see the track and a large clearing that included an old past disused steam driven gravel crushing plant – you could not see the clearing or track from the main track below. We pitched our tent in the clearing and during the night, again there was dead silence for a period of time. We felt that feeling of dread/fear (feeling of being watched) that people talk about during yowie sightings but we saw, heard, smelt nothing. However, during the night you could hear something breaking sticks/twigs when walking through the bush. On returning the next weekend we noticed many small trees broken lying across the small creek that led to the track and camp site – we thought nothing of this. Now, I believe we stumbled on a hairyman watching spot. From the edge of the track clearing you had a view of the whole area, up and down the path and the main creek water hole. The bush was like rainforest scrub and was cool further in. When someone stood at the edge of the bush in the clearing, someone walking on the track could not see you, especially if the person stood just within the tree line. Basically a perfect viewing spot
Event 3
Further up the mountain we discovered what we thought was someone’s camp site. Two granite boulders crossed together leaving a sought of cave under and between the two large boulders (you could almost stand up in the cavity). There were small trees placed lengthwise up and across the entrance, basically leaving the entrance from the side (you could not see inside from the front due to the small trees placement). I cannot remember if the small trees were cut and placed there or if the trees were broken off – I do remember that they ranged from about 50 mm to 100 mm in diameter. Inside was the skin of a rock wallaby. We actually cleaned out the area inside the structure and camped there for the night making a fire at the entrance (it did not smell like it was used by anything recently). That night, further up the top of the hill somewhere amongst the granite outcrop, we heard a lot of noise, rock on rock, snapping trees, thumping noises, and a possum that I shot (we had proper guns at that stage) and skinned went missing from near our camp – it was hanging from a tree branch via rope about six feet off the ground). In the ceiling of the cave/structure there was a small gap with a clear view outside – my friend woke me during the early morning scarred and saying he saw an eye looking at us from outside – on exiting and armed we saw nothing. Again maybe nothing but my friend was adamant he saw an eye – again could have been nothing (pareidolia).
Now I don’t propose that the events did involve a yowie, however since reading the information on the forum and sightings, etc, I started to wonder if a yowie was around at the time. It could have been anything, it could have been other teenagers (but I doubt it, not in the areas we explored – pretty off the beaten track and deep, at times, in the mountains). The third event occurred nowhere near any tracks and it was on the rear side of the mountain range away from the viewpoint of any roads. The trees broken and placed across the creek/path to the area in event 2 do not seem like human interference. Its just little things like that. Also the feeling of dread/fear was only felt on those three occasions and we had been trekking and camping in the ranges for years.
Researching these endless possibilities got me started (more recently).

[sensesonfire]

I visited my elderly aunt yesterday and during the process of conversation and not being one for the boring narrative I brought up the AYR and the topic of Yowies. I thought to myself that this was really going to kill the discussion well how wrong I was.
Now my Aunt virtually knows nothing about Yowies let alone what they look like she is also a devout Christian not prone to lies or exaggeration. She told an astonishing story of which she has not conveyed to anybody else in her entire life.

The incident happened when she was seven years old obviously a long time ago. The family had moved to the outer area of the Goldfields here in WA. At that time the goldfields were used as a generalised term but could mean Kalgoorlie/Boulder/Coolgardie. They had moved into this old home and at the time a lot of the houses were ramshackle old buildings not built to any architectural specifications.
The big bedroom she shared with her four siblings was actually attached to the outside of the house and the only way to access the bedroom was through the back door of the main house onto the verandah and around the side.
One night she was awakened about 1 am and at the end of her bed was a creature crouched down and just staring at her. My aunt was unable to make out the entire shape but she said it had glowing red eyes and a distinct conical shaped head. She screamed for her parents and by the time they arrived on the scene this creature had gone.
I told her it was highly probable you had a Yowie encounter and possibly a very lucky escape although Christians prefer the word fortunate, not lucky. Her parents ( my grandparents ) were not overly empathetic in dealing with these situations and past it off as a bad dream but she was absolutely terrified at having to sleep out in that room from there on but fortunately whatever it was never returned.

[bassplyr]

Sensesonfire,

Interesting story regarding your grandmother. Did she describe the creature further? Was it hairy? Its size etc. Most importantly how did it leave? Did it get up and leave through a window or simply vanish? If it simply vanished or evaporated into thin air then i would say, giving the timing of the siting being right as she woke up, that she had a hypnopompic hallucination. They seem very real and can be quite convincing and terrifying.

[sensesonfire]

bassplyr,
It was my aunt, not my grandmother. My aunt has no idea what a yowie is and when you are in absolute terror I don't think a seven-year-old tends to sit up and take notes and beside that the creature was crouched down in a darkened room and all she could make out was the cone-shaped head and two glowing red eyes. Don't know about you but that description in my view makes it very likely to be yowie related. One thing she did say that in those days very few people locked doors and as far as she could remember the bedroom door was never locked crazy I know but that was back then now it would be unthinkable.
I'm far more inclined to believe stories from people who have never heard and know nothing about yowies or any other cryptids than people running about chasing shadows or rainbows in the bush thinking they could be onto a yowie. Field Researchers (paranormal exempt)....haha.

[Slats]

Hey Senses
Do you roughly what year your Aunt had her sighting, I would like to add it my sightings map for WA.
Cheers

[sensesonfire]

Hi Slats,
The year was 1939.

[theOTyoWAYS777]

Hey dudes,
More of a post reader than a post writer, but thought id say gday. Im certainly a believer. I cant claim to be a "knower" as i havent seen one but in my own head and heart im a knower. Not through faith but through experiences i was having out the otways vic, around 2 years ago. I posted all that so i wont repeat it all. But to this day i still think nearly everyday about those few months of constant activity we had nearly every visit. And now feel like i took it all for granted as i cant find em anymore.. although i havent put the hard yards in. With out sounding like a fruitcake , i honestly miss those experiences.. i think it will always be there in my head until i hopefully find em again.

Now what i find incredible about that whole situation is contact was made on only the second attempt ever "out in the field". Ive been reading about this subject for i dunno... maybe seven years or so.. but never had anyone keen to go actually look.. until finally my fishin buddy got an interst after all those years of me pointing stuff out.
So off we went and the rest is history. But what was happening to us, completly destroyed any doubt in our minds that they are there. Before all the action I actually think deep down i subconsciously had my doubts of their existence even though i called my self a believer at that stage.. i guess what im trying to say is it absolutely shook my reality for weeks on end.
So out of all that i have a couple of questions that haunt me

Did they know i was coming to look that day?

Out of the whole otway ranges i find em (or they found me) on basically the first time i look.

I try not to get airy fairy bout this subject but i wanted to go lookin with all my heart for soooo long.
Or is it just coincidence? Besides those few months of action ive been out to many other spots many times for basically no result.
Either way theyve lured me in for the long haul. Cheers

[Wolf]

Many have claimed they pick up on one's intent... whether that is by observing subtle body language, pheromones, etc or they can literally read our minds is the question.

... if the latter, from how distant?

If it is something 'spiritual' about us they pick up on I wonder how acceptable I would be to them personally as their reportedly (from American Indian folklore anyway) arch enemies are my totem animal?

(I did not choose the Mooshka, they chose me. I thought I had chosen the wolf )

[Tracker74]

I guess for me it was the fact that seeing my first UFO at the age of 15 then having multiple ghost encounters growing up and even to this day having something which seems to be somewhat attached to me has sparked a deep interest in all things paranormal. It wasn’t until 20 years ago when I heard something very large and heavy quickly stomp through the bush not 10 metres away from me convinced me that something exists. Having read 100’s of eyewitness accounts I’m determined to get the hard evidence that is desperately needed.

I’m tackling the yowie subject from different angles and focusing on it by way of, ok what’s not there. If they are here why aren’t we finding this or that? I truly believe that the yowie subject has a lot more paranormal essence than people might realise.

[sensesonfire]

Hi Tracker74,
Good to see you pursuing the paranormal aspect of the Yowie because it is too obvious to ignore. People are generally divided on the scientific or the paranormal aspect although personally I never agreed with the scientific approach. I now believe that Yowies are both paranormal and physical, I do not like using the terminology flesh and blood. If you want a good read on the paranormal aspect of Yowie read Dean Harrison's ''The Yowie" on page 2 of the Yowie Controversial, Conjecture and Fringe Subject Matter Discussion, in particular, Ruby Lang's comment
A couple of years ago I advised all the scientific field researchers if they really wanted to make contact with these creatures and to save time, money and effort hold a bush welcoming meeting such as Sue O'Connor did in Ruby Lang's post and before she knew it she had Yowies traversing her backyard in the Blue Mountains.
A word of warning though when you are dealing with the supernatural you may get other cryptids you may not have been expecting

[Shazzoir]

As a child, I was a bit of a bookworm, spent my days roaming around the garden looking at birds, insects etc. For Christmas one year, my Mum and Dad bought me a tiny, but workable microscope, which I still have nearly 45 years later. I was into nature in a big way. Read my way through a good proportion of he kid's section of our local library, got bored with those, and started choosing books from the grown-up's section. Birthdays and Christmases, I always asked for books, and as I got older, that didn't change. I was that kid that knew all about animals, and animal observation and behaviour books written by Konrad Lorenz, Jane Goodall, Joy Adamson and many others were devoured eagerly. Stories by Jim Corbett, a 'white hunter' from India's colonial past who wrote about man-eating beasts, elephants and other subjects as slice-of-life things of that time, too. Famed snake handler Ram Chandra came to our school, and I was fascinated. The Leyland Brothers and Alby Mangels were TV viewing of choice, as was The Curiosity Show. I learned more about animals, and not just our Aussie ones. But it wasn't until I hit highschool that my interest in The Hairy Folk was ignited.

We had a second-hand bookshop in town, and I would spend what pocketmoney I hadn't already blown on lollies from the Greek family's corner store down the road, on books from that tiny shop. One of those books intrigued me, and for the price of 60 cents, I owned a book by a chap named Tuesday Lobsang Rampa. Now, I'm aware this chap has been called a charlatan and many other things, and whether his stories are fact or fiction, I didn't know back then. In this book, he described an interaction with a Yeti, not one he'd encountered, but from stories from older Lamas who had. I was rivetted. What was this mystical creature? I read that book so many times, until I found others in my tiny bookshop, and later, from neighbouring secondhand places. I'm sure my Grade 8 teacher must have wondered about my reading material choices, when I did a book review on 'my' book, describing the 'air burials' those in Tibet do, with the stripping of a corpse of its soft tissue, and 'breaking' into pieces for the vultures and buzzards to dispose of.

Around this time, Leonard Nimoy's "In Search Of" was prime television viewing fare, and so many episodes had me captivated, so my library choices turned to the paranormal and unexplained. As I grew older, I continued hunting down paperbacks of this type, fortunately, the 70's was the heyday of this type of published material, and I read as much as I could, which led me into Science Fiction on the side. Bigfoot was talked about often, on these programs, as was the Yeti, and Sasquatch, but I never heard the word 'Yowie' until I was an adult. A few of my close friends seemed to think such creatures were fair dinkum, but it wasn't until I was in College, and had the great good fortune to attend a great friend's brother's 21st, that things ramped up.

I know the year was 1986, as Halley's Comet came by at the same time of D's birthday party, which was in a rural area north of Brisbane. Of course, there was a bonfire, and much talk, but as the night wore on, and the hour grew late, the topic of conversation turned from genial chatter to a more serious telling of a story that D and his friends had experienced. They had been camping by a large body of water, laughing and joking around, until one of them who slipped into the bush just out of the perimeter of the firelight for a pee, came face to face with something that stunk and yelled at him from the darkness. To cut a long story short, he bolted, screaming, and lit out for home, on foot, the others following, all their gear forgotten and left behind in their flight. On arriving at the closest friend's home, they were terrified, and refused to go back and an older brother and father (I think?) decided it was up to them to get their stuff back home.

ANYWAY - so this tale filled me with awe and a little fear, and so I continued to read, learning more about our Aussie version of Bigfoot, the Yowie.

In mid 2005, a wonderful bloke and lifelong friend named Buck, introduced me to AYR and Dean, and though I lurked for nearly 6 months, I finally became a member here, and that's when my education shot up into the stratosphere. So many reports! A forum FULL of people who were just as interested as I was in the Yowie and cryptid phenomena! Good Lord, it was a revelation and I can never thank Buck and Dean enough for that. Nowadays, Buck makes headlines with his sculpts and drawings of people's sightings of Yowies, as his fire for the subject is also an eternal one.

It was around this time, that something that had happened to me on a school camp in Grade 5 or 6 (it was a long time ago) began to nag at me, and the more I read of others' experiences and sightings/contacts here, the more I became sure that my unsolved mystery might just have been something similar.

I won't go into massive detail here, but I have promised Dean (though it was years ago now) that I would submit a report here one day, and so I shall, but I gave him a verbal of what happened, and he was marvellous. So that's how I got here, and I am sure a number of the members here would have had a very similar introduction to mine, and that also helps me come to where I am now, with a healthy respect for what's out there.

Now there's YouTube to browse, but I've more or less ceased doing that now thanks to all the fakers and bullshite artists who think they can get their 15 minutes of fame from jumping on the crypto bandwagon. We've all seen them, but now I seldom look at any video, unless it's shown here first and people suspect it could be fair dinkum. Likewise, there's eBay, to find all those esoteric books, but even that's tapering off for want of decent publications. And don't even get me started on the rash of 'Bigfoot' and 'Yowie' movies with appalling acting and even more outlandish plots that are undergoing a resurgence of late.

They are as real as we are, and while I don't have explanations for everything, I know that the night I lay in that school camp tent, suddenly woken by something I can't explain in the middle of the night, and had the top of the tent pressed down half the distance to my upturned face, seeing the taut nylon forced downward y something that looked like the shape of a big hand with long nails that dented the nylon tent material still more, life changed. My screams woke not only my tentmates, but half the school camp, and I refused to sleep in that tent that night or any night, and ended up bunking in with the teachers in a cabin. I didn't see whatever it was, but there was enough ambient moonlight that Spring night for me to clearly see what was happening and to know it was no dream. Four pubescent girls in a tent in a camp ground, visited by something the same night we were all taken spotlighting by the teachers. So we were out there in the bush, making noise despite being told to hush, and I suspect one of the locals came to check us out that night when everything quietened down. And my tent was the one closest to the track we'd taken earlier that night.

Guess it's time to finally submit that report.

Oh, and there have been reported sightings around Girraween too- There's a town called Eukey close by, and a 'Hairy Man's Bend' on the Stanthorpe - Mt Tully Rd.

The kicker though? 2 km north of the Girraween ranger's station is the interestingly named "Baboon Gully".


Shazz