yowie hide

[suspect]

i plan to move to the batemans bay or bundaberg area later this year and i plan to construct a sniper style hide/bunker in a high traffic yowie area and basically find something that tends to atract the creatures an spend a few nights at a time in the bush and who knows with a bit of preparation might be able to atract something i am currently brain storming some ways of collecting foot prinnts and hair. basically think of how you would get these samples from a person without neing noticed. any ideas would be more than welcome and when the site has been completed gps coordinats wil be posted

[Dion]

Hey there suspect, first of all welcome to the forums.

In regards to planning a hidey spot and somehow luring it in to collect hair or footprints, it just aint that easy, although I do admire your enthusiasm.

You see as far as I know a Yowie is unpredictable in such that it’s hard to track one down, know its movements or which direction it will go or come from in the first place. In saying that it has been done, take the stories of Deans for an example and that of Fatfoot he/she was tracked down to a certain gully and you knew where Fatfoot was coming from because of some hard detective work on Deans part.

But that was a rare occasion and Dean will tell you first hand that there may well never be another Fatfoot he/she was one of a kind. That’s not to say it will never happen again I think you just have to be lucky sometimes, get out there and do the hard work and investigative yourself. Which means sitting and waiting in different areas, walking the tracks and trails at night and see what you come across. Then try and pinpoint the Yowies movements of the area, which direction it comes from each night and where it goes.

The hard part is finding those sorts of areas where a Yowie will frequent in the first place.

What I would recommend and this is just my opinion instead of erecting a hiding place first look for evidence such as, footprints, tree breaks, worn tracks you never know you may stumble upon something. If you do find something then think of where to position yourself for the night, where you won’t be seen. The thing about erecting a makeshift hidey hole or bunker is you could erect a hidey spot in one area and wait for weeks even months and not see or hear a thing all because you’re not in the right area, in doing so wasting your time.

Once you have found the perfect spot then you can think about how would I gather something like hair as evidence.

And I don’t have any answers on that one as your dealing with a smart and intelligent being too smart in my opinion to be collecting hair from. Not to discourage you that is.

Please, I don’t want to sound as though I’m know it all because really I’m far from it, we are all amateurs some with more knowledge than others, what I’m trying to convey is, all Yowie research is trial and error and no one has all the answers, we can only learn from our mistakes.

I hope your research goes well.