Yowie Hunting

Yowie is one of several names given to a hominid reputed to live in the Australian wilderness. The creature has its roots in Aboriginal oral history.
The yowie is usually said to be a hairy and ape-like creature standing upright at between 2.1 m (6 ft 11 in) and 3.6 m (12 ft)




The above information was supplied by Wikipedia.

As a kid we were told about the Yowies, the Bunyip and Big Foot although Big Foot was in Canada and North America, They could have come to Australia so we needed to watch out, of course then there were drop bears too but I didn't know about drop bears until much later in life. Not sure why we were told about these things, if it was scare tactics or just fun to frighten little kids. Anyway Sheri and I were on the hunt yesterday although we didn't set out to look for Yowies, it just happened.

We had been driving West and happened upon Kilcoy and our first sighting on the Yowie which was the statue in a park. It is a rather large imposing statue and along side of it was a smaller version where people could put their own head in and be photographed with the yowie's body.

We read about another yowie a couple of kilometres away and decided to go to see what we could find. It was based at/near the race course. This yowie was a bit more elusive and involved walking around the outside of the race course to try to locate where he was hiding.

It was a hot day and for the first part no shade so we debated where to go or not, I voted for not, but was persuaded to go and we set off for a walk. I'm glad I went as that Yowie was much smaller and definitely cute (as far as a yowie could be cute) his lair was also in shade, smart yowie. We visited for a few minutes before returning to the car.

Thank fully after some lunch in a near by cafe which we were hopefully would be air conditioned, it wasn't, we returned home and a cold change settled in bringing much needed rain to the Kilcoy area and home.