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If your out walking along a bush trail...and you are being followed by a yowie...what would you do if he was behind you and being agressive because your in his terrirtory...
would you risk facing up to it and heading back the way you came? or would you avoid accidental confrontation and head deeper...
remember..hes behind you just out of sight stomping his feet etc...telling you to go away...

Good question, I've been on my way home both times I've been stalked and though scared the second time I wouldn't say it was an agressive yowie.
Dean, your thoughts?

I don't know about you guys, but i'd like to see whats comming at me LOL! I would probably keep my face toward it and back off quickly and try to be calm, though knowing my track record you'd probably find me glued to the spot untiL hubby came looking for me LOL! Honestly I don't know how I'd react, I'd like to believe I'd be capable of doing the afore mentioned

That still doesnt answer my question..ill try and explain it better...your actually LOOKING for signs of a yowie...and your going down a NARROW bush path and you can only go foreward or back...

this might seem a little silly but do you guys ever carry a weopon just incase? besides a strong torch for night encounters?

Great one, do you mean like being herded down the path? Can't turn back because its behind you?

To the first Q : I would try to get back past the yowie via the way I came in . Slow and steady , I'd drop what ever I didn't need such as a back pack , watch , or something shinny so that hopfully it may get it's attention and distract it long enough for me to get past ! If that wasn't possable , I would head deeper in and try to circle back around to find a way out ! It's a hard one to answer , in the heat of the moment things may be at a point where your pnly choice is to flee slowly the other way !

As for carrying a weopon , I personaly never go into the scrub with-out a knife . It's not so much for protection , it's more for survival if I need to make shelter for an unplaned overnighter , or for cutting ect .
I don't think a knife is going to bother an animal with that much size and power . As for guns or bows , I never carry them unless I'm out there to do a bit of hunting (pigs or what ever) !

Great One
Have Actually Be in a situation similar to what you have asked.
One day Back in 2002 Jeannie and Myself Pullled over on the side off the road in one of our spots.Kilcoy area.
Went for a walk looking for any signs .
Alls we could find was broken trees all up the side of the track.Upon inspection of trees we found some where old and frail so it was possible it was wind or storm damage.Decide to see how hard it was to snap a tree .That was it, this almighty thump just came from the top of this hill as the tree snapped.

We just looked at one another and said did you hear that.Decided to stomp back and low and behold it came back.
Now what we decided was to go to the top of the hill all of 40 yards away and see what it was one and a half hours later backwards and forwards camera shakin in the hands tellin Jeannie if we see it get back too the car and if ya cant the camera would tell the story.[Didnt go down to well. ]
We never did see anything But what ever this thing was played with us for one and a half hours as when we would get to the top nothing,no noise.
As soon as we got back on the fire trail It would Thump at us .
Funny thing was No matter how many stomps I done it done it back .
In the end we decided to leave as it was beyond a joke and Realised that what ever it was Could have taken us at any stage.

As for Weapons Like Darren says only leave home with a survival knife.Unless hunting Pigs and other Vermin then thats a different story.

Nigel&Jeannie wrote: tellin Jeannie if we see it get back too the car and if ya cant the camera would tell the story.[Didnt go down to well. ]

omg thats gold !!!!

Im going to have to rember that one for refrace in the years to come

OK.. what would you do, if a Yowie is stomping his foot, aggressively.

For me, although I have never heard a Yowie stomp it would suggest a number of things.

1: They want YOU to know they are in they area.

2: They are in command because they have made first contact and are spelling out the rules of engagement. Go AWAY... I don't like you here.

3: Did I bring a change of underwear? Because I was really hoping I would meet one that would like to be my friend.

4: Why the hell did he wait till I got past him before he started stomping?

Now for the the path...

1: I'm assuming that this is a well worn path... well paths are made by wear, so it is going to lead somewhere... hopefully not into a bigger Yowie's territory that decides to stalk you... which I think is infinitely more sinister.

2: The path is not on a knife edge mountain. Therefore I can, if I choose have more option in which direction I go... I don't think you should give in to bullies, it only encourages them.

Now for some options, you'll have noted by my careful consideration of this dilemma that the Yowie is very patient and has not carried me off to a larder or another dimension.

1: Forget about trying to sneak anywhere, or removing anything shiny. He knows I'm here and it's pitch black... ... ... ... Mum.

2: Curse myself for not buying that Kevlar suit I saw watching the late night shopping channel.

3: Have already prepared a video statement like Pauline, to be aired in case is dissapearance.

4: Take one for the species, like the Monarch Butterfly I would make myself taste bad so that the same fate wont befall another human. I think I would take a bath in a bittering agent like Naptha... an ingredient that supposedly stops people drinking. Though I could probably use a drink about now.

5: Strap on my gas powered running stilts and get out of there.

Seriously, hypothetically or realistically you have put yourself in this situation. I think that the stomp is fair warning. I'm not sure how many they give or if indeed the stomp is actually him trying to shake some mud of his foot.

Perversely, he could be stomping thinking... I hope this is deep enough for a cast. Damn! I've smudged my dermal ridges again.

Okay back to serious again. You have chosen to come out at night, in pursuit of the Hairy Grail. You've actually found it. Are you going to die wondering?

Take a step forward and see what happens.

To be honest, I'm miles away on my gas powered stilts.

Hope this was of no help whatsoever

Cheers Buck

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You have chosen to come out at night, in pursuit of the Hairy Grail. You've actually found it. Are you going to die wondering?
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That's classic. Pure class.

Hmm,.......If I was being followed by a yowie I'd probebly freeze with shock. As much as I'd want to run away, I would turn on my camera and slowly walk back and try to get some video footage. I never leave home without my cam.