WARNING : the woods are apparently filled with hairy Yowies . During a recent interstate trip, a Little Darwin staffer had an interesting conversation with a seemingly sane person who has been on two Yowie hunting safaris. On one , near, Kilcoy ,Queensland, which boasts a Yowie statue , his guide was Cryptozoologist ( a person who studies the existence of scientifically undiscovered animals) , Steve Rushton, well known in Yowie circles and in cyberspace.
Rushton was equipped with Russian night glasses and a movie camera was set up with trip lines to catch any marauding Yowie on film . The night glasses revealed an amazing amount of activity in the bush. During the cold night , strange sounds were heard and the camera flash went off. They jumped out of their tent , saw nothing, and a subsequent examination of the film revealed a large Red Kangaroo had bounded through . Another safari was in the Jamieson Valley , where residents had reported screams in the night and an arm smashing through louvres, leaving behind strange hair. Tracks showed a creature had plunged down steep rock ledges with apparent ease. . Clumps of pineapples had also been torn out of the ground
It seems Yowie hunting can be dangerous –one enthusiast had a marriage break up because he spent so much time chasing the elusive critters.
Rushton was equipped with Russian night glasses and a movie camera was set up with trip lines to catch any marauding Yowie on film . The night glasses revealed an amazing amount of activity in the bush. During the cold night , strange sounds were heard and the camera flash went off. They jumped out of their tent , saw nothing, and a subsequent examination of the film revealed a large Red Kangaroo had bounded through . Another safari was in the Jamieson Valley , where residents had reported screams in the night and an arm smashing through louvres, leaving behind strange hair. Tracks showed a creature had plunged down steep rock ledges with apparent ease. . Clumps of pineapples had also been torn out of the ground
It seems Yowie hunting can be dangerous –one enthusiast had a marriage break up because he spent so much time chasing the elusive critters.
Intrigued by this info, we wondered if the mystery fecal matter popping up in Darwin Harbour could be due to a huge colony of Yowies disguised as Irish backpackers. By Googling, we found that there had been several Yowie reports in the Top End media. In the Acacia Hill area in 1997 a woman ,Kate Jones, not her real name, reported a Yowie on her mango farm spooked horses and caused a cow to jump a fence.
More than two metres tall, smelling of urine , with dull ,reddish brown hair ,another Yowie was reported in the Litchfield Times . Then something like “ a bloody big gorilla “ was seen near Adelaide River, according to the NT News . When it was suggested that somebody was playing tricks , an irate gun toting rural woman warned that down her way they shot first and asked questions later, so any dude pretending to be a Yowie with three toes had better look out. These weird things have been seen in many parts of Australia, from the Flinders Ranges of South Australia to Cairns and beyond. One sighting has been attributed to a bear which escaped from a circus in 1959.
