Innes lake ruins

[jeffa33]

Hi all,

Am new to the site and just wanted to say it is a great one.

Just wanted to know if anyone has any stories or sightings/incidents that have happened in the Port Macquarie area (nsw)?

I am not sure if this counts as a incident but when I was around 10 or 11 a mate and myself used to go bike riding up to the Innes lake ruins say every couple of months and this one particular time which was about 4pm about 100 m on the northern side of the ruins, we were walking our bikes to this large natural dam and we both just felt like someone was staring at us from the thick closed forest that overlooks the path. both the hairs on our neck stand up and we just hightail the hell outta there. I know it dosnt sound to scary but when you are alot younger and you are about 3 kms from the nearest rural house and people and this total feeling of eeriness overcomes you it is nerve racking. It was the last time we went there.

Back then the ruins were closed off by two locked gates which we had to hoist our bikes over to continue. Now apparently NPWS takes 1 day a month tours to the area.

I now live in the whitsundays at airlie beach QLD and I think I read on one of your reports of a sighting along Conway road and was wondering if there have been other reports in the above areas?

Cheers

Jeff

[Dion]

Hey Jeff

First off welcome to the forums

Just wanted to know if anyone has any stories or sightings/incidents that have happened in the Port Macquarie area (nsw)?

Yeah we had a sighting of a something jump out of a tree and charge a young girl in Wauchope not long ago the same people have also seen something large and upright walking in their neighbours property around Dusk, they described it as very big, dark in colour with no visible clothes on. It couldn’t have been the neighbour as he doesn’t live at the property that often.

Myself and SAB8 went and did a small expedition to their property to do a bit of investigation work, came up with nothing although the rock tapping they were hearing , we found out that that was just a local species of frog. Most of the time these things have a rational explanation.

Bago Bluff Nature Reserve and Broken Bago State Forest should get results, a few things happen there, on a side note and most probably has nothing to do with his disappearance, an old man with dementia went missing there recently it’s just a matter of getting out there for a look.

In regards to Queensland and Airlie’s beach see link http://www.yowiehunters.com.au/index.ph ... &Itemid=39

I’m not sure of any other sightings from around there I’m sure Conway NP and Dryander NP would get a few little fella’s junjudee types they seem to prefer the northern parts. Again its just a matter of getting out there for a look and maybe a camp out at some of these spots, preferably with a mate you can trust.

Hope this all helps

BTW: Thanks for sharing your story from when you were younger, could quite possibly have been.

[jeffa33]

Thanks Chewy,

I will definatley keep my eyes posted when I go bushwalking now that I know what to look for.

Have done quite a few walks in the Conway NP but will certainly take more notice of the surrounds as opposed to looking at the path a few metres ahead of me and keep you posted if anything seems worth mentioning.

I would rather come face to face with one of our little 4-6 feet cousins than an angry territorial 9 feet plus male. I have recently seen the footage of the 2006 katoomba yowie. Is that real or a hoax and is that what the smaller yowies supossed to look like?

And lastly has there been any threads on eye contact/staring at yowies and wether they may feel that as a threatening gesture? I know that many cultures and even primates get angry and agressive, but in european culture it is bad mannered to not do so. Any thoughts?

Anyway thanks again

[SAB 8]

Howdy Jeffa33 welcome to the forums

AroundPort Macquarie (as Chewy said) the Bago Bluff area is probably your best bet.... although anywhere with significant tracks of bushland can be a possible area. Also, it does not necessarily have to be remote. In fact, a lot of the reports are quite close to significantly developed areas - often there will be a corridor of bushland running through the area which is linked to larger areas of scrub or national park/state forest. Something to keep in mind when scouting for possible areas.

I was in Bago Bluff a few weeks ago and found something had been chasing after the tree grubs (see attached photographs)... probably black cockatoos but then again maybe something else???

Also, couldn`t help but thinking that you may very well have been being watched as a youngster but not necessarily by his hairiness.... maybe what was watching you was more ghostly in origin. There is a lot of history in Port Macquarie - being one of the earliest established settlement/convict posts in Australia??? Probably has its fair share of haunts as well!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA0OrnVqIBQ

[Dion]

I have recently seen the footage of the 2006 katoomba yowie. Is that real or a hoax.

Hey again Jeff

Yeah the 2006 Katoomba yowie footage is a hoax, apparently one of the guys that made it had links to the film industry, and hence forth the costume.

As far as I know the little guys look just like the big guys just smaller, can be a bit more inquisitive, and if there is one little one there is usually more.

I don’t think there are any threads on eye contact but plenty of reports on it, there are a few from Australia, be darned if I can find them though, there is this Youtube one of a stare off http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RW1Fyk6YDs and also a few from the states.

Usually when eye to eye contact occurs in a stare down it doesn’t result in any aggressive behaviour, usually results in either the yowie turning the other way and walking off or the witness doing the same. I haven’t heard of a Yowie becoming aggressive just because of eye to eye contact.

[Redneck]

Just a bit of info I've learnt on eye contact (or lack of ) I was told by my Grandad when I was a kid. If you want to get close to an animal then you shouldn't look straight at it.
Over the years I've found it to be true and often see just how close I can get to something by just watching it in my peripheral vision. For interests sake and to prove the theory I'll get up by an animal then look at it directly, they soon take off then.
I learnt this week that it applies to birds too, whilst my partner and I were sitting outside, a Blue Wren kept coming in round us to argue with the other male bird he kept seeing in a mirror. While we ignored him he would come within a few feet, as soon as our eyes looked straight at him he was off.
Sounds good in theory, but..... if I was to encounter a yowie whilst stolling along a track I don't rekon I would be able to nonchalantly keep stolling along ignoring it.

[jeffa]

Thanks guys.

Just need to grow an extra pair so I will go camping in a remote area. Never worried me much about it before but reading all the stories and taking note of the signs of yowies makes you second guess a decision to even go bushwalking alone. Makes things a little more exciting though.

Cheers again.

[Lasso]

welcome Jeffa!

No longer will you look at your feet when you are walking through the bush when so much could be happening around you!!

Camping is no longer the same, believe me!

SAB8 great photos!! Could be a black cockatoo how far up the tree where the bits??


Lasso

[Lasso]

Here is a couple of tree bits we found at table lands I think, losing track, I 've been to so may places now.

Lasso

[AL Pitman]

Hey Jeffa good to have ya

I have seen a few doco's on the life and habbits of the mountain Gorillas the one that comes first to mind was narrated by and featured Sir David Attenborough . I kind of recall him stating that it was not good for one's health to stare into the eyes of a Silver Back as it would more than likely promote the creature to remove one's head from one's shoulders with it bare hands and brute strength .

Also although it's more a case of art immitating life , was the scene in the movie that stared Sigourny Weaver , Goriilas in the mist where she played the lead roll as Dianne Fossy I think it was . She strongly advises one of her young charges to NOT LOOK INTO IT'S EYES being the Gorilla - Silver Back as doing so was perceived due to these creatures social structre as an act of aggression and would probably have you leaving the jungle minus one arm .

So if and when I ever get the opportunity to cross paths with one of our hairy brethren and that's, not a reference to my ex mother inlaw I think it will only get a glance of the back of my head as I dash off as fast as my legs will in the other direction , Phooy to research I say self preservation comes first !!!!!!!!



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