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I went out to the big area today, I saw seed pods and they were open like something has been feeding on them in one spot, with a couple of bones. Trees have been pushed over recently too. So I started to walk down this valley and crunch crunch crunch was coming down the side of the mountain. It was making a noise like and old man grunting as he gets off the lounge. I had the whole lot on tape but went to rewind it in my video cam and it chewed the god damn tape...Brand new tape not using fujifilm DV60 every again. I stick to using TDK tapes..I am so majorally peaved off. Need to get a new tape before exploring again. sorry fellow yowie researches.

Hey Mrx

I am sorry for your loss, that would have been great to hear, sounds like your getting good results out there.

Thax chewy , I just had some smokes and coffey I fill a bit better.
Asked the wife can I go tomorrow she said , If I can come.
So it look like I'm going tomorrow with my wife and one of my kids which is 3. Thay will be at the car the hole time. I'm hope its not going to rain.

Is it possible to go back to where you heard the grunting and look for possible footprints?

Good luck with it all.

PS: hope the missus doesn't get to bored sitting in the car all day.

I was looking for prints but the ground was so hard . The wife is going to take her DSLR and wait near the car. I hope I have not spooked it after today !

hey mate, i watched your videos on youtube, good work!

Not sure how much it costs, but there are places that can fix video tapes etc if they are in good enough condition, might be worth it?

Fisho
It looks pretty bad . The tape has snapped and is chewed for about 50 cm.
The wife is bugging me to drop the kids some where so we can go again (she's got the bug) . After she heard wood knocking and she saw a dark blur about 5ft run across the road really fast . I told her that more people see dark yowie then gray one's and some one took a pic of one about 120km away in 2008.

P.S If you have a canon mv500i don't use fujifilm dvm60 tapes they don't seem to handle stop starting etc it chews the tape when rewinding.
Don't have this problem with TDK tapes or Canon Tapes.

Hi MrX mate i know how you feel buddy i have lost a few tapes myself over the years.....i find now that SONY Mini DV8 tapes work fine and i can reuse them about 4 times before anythink happens to them...Hopeing SANTA might bring me a new HD Cam for Xmas but then again as the wife says to me keep on wishing...lol Take Care Buddy...

Yes rickrocket , I will love a new HD cam . My cam is about 7 years old.

I'm looking to get a Sony HD cam. My dad has one and he says its the best camera he's ever got. It even has facial/body recognition, so if you've captured a video before with friends or whatever, it "saves" their faces/body into its internal memory, so the next time you film with said friends, it brings out their faces/body clearer. It also records in Dolby DTS - so the sound is perfect. Basically, what you hear with your own ears is whats recorded without any loss in the conversion from the audio to the internal HDD it has.

I've played around with it a few times and its well worth the buy. Especially if you're going to be using it for this kind of thing.

Yall are terminally awesome. Keep us posted here on AYR, Facebook sux. Them BF researchers don't know Jack Schitt.

deadpool:- One day when I have some money I will look into the sony HD cam it sounds good
cheer's Mr x


Cheer's Ella
I have been doing this for about 3 mouth long after my sighting in 2008. Dean has told me what to look for , and I learn from rickrocket as will . I have done a lot of hunting as I was growing up so that help.
Just findding the time with 3 little one.

So you've had a sighting! I have never had a BF sighting, but have friends who have had a good number of them. What did your Yowie look like, what color, etc.?

description is grey in colour, six foot plus, long arms, hair appear to be two to three inches.The face looked a bit like a chimp but the ears didn't stick out. I only saw it for five seconds but I definately know what I saw. cheers MR X