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Hey everyone!
I was just wondering if anyone has heard of any activity in the Kenilworth reigon in Queensland?
Because I'm heading up there tomorrow for a couple of nights in my usual camping spot and I was just wondering if you guys had heard of anything around there...
Ill be sure to take a camera with me to be ready to get my happy snaps of the big fella or anything else interesting...
Where I go its really out of the way, maybe 5 or 6 camping spots spaced out and a dirt/rock road...youd be brave to take a sedan up in there...and theres a creek that runs right past the campsite...
anywayz....reply ASAP coz im heading out tomorrow...thanks!

~THE GREAT ONE~

http://www.dhamurian.org.au/indaba/2001oct14.html

don't know if that's any help.. but remember this, Google is your friend.

Hi Great One, this may sound like a strange request but could you post some pics of the camp grounds and stream.

Thanks.

Sure, no worries..Ill see what I can do...I'll be taking as many photos of that area as I can anyway not just the stream or the campgrounds...There are MANY MANY hardly used tracks throughout that area...Where we're camping is a very lonely spot...not like Charliemoreland which is very busy...Our spot os a very quiet little spot tucked away where hardly any people visit...many trails leading to nowhere...Ill be on careful look out for any signs of yowies (broken trees etc.)
Ill keep you posted...

So why DO you want those pictures? Are you trying to discover my secret place? :p lol

Innocent me.

U never answered....

Change of plans everyone...there is an 80% chance I wont be heading up there this weekend...things come up I guess...I was really lookin foreward to it as well....Ill keep you updated on whether I go or not later on aight...

~THE GREAT ONE~

P.S. Sorry Tish! I'll do my best....

For those of you interested, the trip is back on, but im only going for one night instead of the originally planned two...which is unfortunate...
so does anyone have any info about yowies in the Kenilworth area?
Dean, mate, you gotta know SOMETHING....
If you dont wanna talk about it here then just PM me aight?

~THE GREAT ONE~

Thanks Great One, I've sent you a PM.

Good luck on your trip.

No worries Tish, its my pleasure

Let us know how it goes.

ALEX! howz it going bro?
I havent spoken with you for ages! ah well, im looking foreward to many interesting conversations with you.

UPDATE
Bags are packed, sleeping bags ready, tent ready, good supply of batteries on hand etc etc.
Just gotta charge up the batteries for the ol' camera tonight and im ready to head out in the morning...
Ill be leaving at about 9 or 10...so this will be my last post for a couple of days...if you dont hear from me by wednesday then a yowie has taken me as its personal music device (ie. Ill be screaming my head off if one of those blighters slung me over its shoulder and carried me off into the deepest darkest parts of the bush).
anywayz, ill be in touch....I really wish you would have given me some information Dean, but then again, youve never been one for talk when it comes to me have you....
ah well, maybe someday youll get to know me a lil more and see that im genuine...
bye everyone!

~THE GREAT ONE~

Dean's on holiday. He's a busy human. Leave him be.

My apologies, I was unaware...

REPORT:

Aight, well...where do I start?
we got to Kenilworth and went to our usual campsite, only to find that it was taken by about 2 daytrippers and 2 campers, (filled to capacity). So we decided to head out and find a new area, but on the way out we discovered a back road to another campsite by itself that hadnt been taken. It was maybe 200 metres from the originally planned area. We set up camp and scouted the area. Nothing much out there really, a few borken branches and saplings and I noticed a few claw/teeth marks on about shoulder height of some of the smaller trees. The creek ran through the bush about 50-100metres to the left of us. But I didnt dare go any farther than that because it was VERY dense and VERY wet. and I had nothing to defend myself with. So anyway we hit the hay at about 9pm. It started raining a few times, there was ALOT of night activity in the area, but nothing that can confirm our hairy friend. I was awoken at about 6:20am by the sounds of a tree falling over and smashing into the ground and something trailing off into the bush...I was scared as all hell, but I managed to get up and check it out. To my surprise and embarassment it was just a group of 4 cows grazing on the lantana. And one of them had pushed over a medium sized tree while scratching itself. When I heard the tree snapping I was waiting for it to come crashing down on top of us but it was a tree farther off in the distance...
There was a small dog barking way off in the distance for hours and hours...maybe at one of the other campsites...something may have disturbed it...
I also mentioned alot of night activity...I did hear a few whoops and whistles but I could not tell if they were just birds or not...You wouldnt hear such a bird in the suburbs, it was one that I hadnt heard before...
All in all, the night was a waste...I would have liked to spend more time out there but we ended up coming home this morning...Maleny is a VERY nice place...
My advice is for people heading in that area to look for the big fella...look REALLY hard, spend as much time out there as you can...there aint much out there except VERY thick bushland...

DAMMIT! I missed out on my happy snaps with the big fella...:'(
maybe next time...
Oh and Tish, no photos unfortunately...Ill tell you more about it in a PM...

~THE GREAT ONE~

Hey guys, just found a tick on my upper right leg...YAY! not...lucky the little fella didnt dig himself in any higher than he was or Id be in REAL trouble...lol...
I got him out though...flushed that lil bloodsucker down the sink...I hate those things so much...
Oh, and btw, im really god damn sick right now...maybe from the tick? cold? who knows, but he was in there since last night...I didnt even realise until 10 mins ago he was there...

In between Charlie Morlans and Jimna its called the Sunday creek Rd . Following the road the landscape changes from wooded area the subtropical differant kinds of foods, people use the road to go to Landcruiser Park Jimna WORTH THE DRIVE NIGHT TIME

Wish I hada known that before...lol...

Nice report Great one. If you have a tick, how many does the Hairy one have?

Cheers Buck

I would hate to imagine...the person I went out there with had a couple as well...annoying little buggers...
but the cows seem to be doing fine, they just bulldoze paths through the bush like it was nothing to them...and knocking trees over while scratching themselves...wow, thats alot of power behind that enormous head...lol

[quote="Anonymous"]Hey everyone!
I was just wondering if anyone has heard of any activity in the Kenilworth reigon in Queensland?
Because I'm heading up there tomorrow for a couple of nights in my usual camping spot and I was just wondering if you guys had heard of anything around there...
Ill be sure to take a camera with me to be ready to get my happy snaps of the big fella or anything else interesting...
Where I go its really out of the way, maybe 5 or 6 camping spots spaced out and a dirt/rock road...youd be brave to take a sedan up in there...and theres a creek that runs right past the campsite...
anywayz....reply ASAP coz im heading out tomorrow...thanks!

~THE GREAT ONE~[/quote]=steven hello geust hey next time you go bush, look for anything in that thick vegitation that looks like its been walked through by a yowie and especially piled rocks that yowies pile up, but take note of the top rock on any pile left by the yowie and its colour