Location: Daisy Hill, Queensland
Date: June 1998
Dean, the Director of A.Y.R had a few reports of recent Yowie activity near Logan in S.E Queensland , so he first went to check the area out. Sure enough he had a brief encounter. (See his report).
After calling us, Dean, Ash, and myself went out to see if we could finally get a photo of the elusive bugger. Dean showed us the damage done to the foliage near the walking tracks.
Sure enough Dean was right, the place was trashed and personally I don't know of any other animal that would cause such devastation (bar mankind of course!). Also being in a national park which is full of people during the daylight hours it couldn't be a human, there was too much damage exactly like the Blue Mountains.
To make people understand this damage imagine a few football teams running through the bushland at once, breaking limbs ripping small shrubs up trampling over new foliage without other people noticing them.
Tree limbs were snapped in two up around the 6-7 foot mark, there were a few prints in the ground but not identifiable as yowie prints, just suspect as they were so large.
Most interesting about all the devastation and the snapped tree limbs is that they were all near the walking trails and picnic areas, the deeper we got into the bush the less damage was done.
My theory on this, as with a few other people, is that the yowie only does this kind of damage near where mankind is, like the walking trails, picnic areas, people’s houses etc, as his marker, it's like he is saying that this is his territory, and that we shouldn't be near it, or even as a marker to it's own kind.
Also what we noticed is that this Yowie used markers more like the Bigfoot ones over the states. He/she used the tripod method in a couple of places and a couple of branches upside down as well, there were no cuts axe marks in these limbs, they were ripped apart by something strong or even bitten off.
We decided to stay for a few hours after dark to see what happens as we had heard reports also of the Koala population was slowly disappearing, ( there is a survey currently into the cause of this but we who acknowledge yowie/bigfoots know the reason why).
A few times we heard branches break, trees and shrubs moving but this ended up being just Wallabies, possums etc. It came dark and Ash lit up a fire as it was very cold, Dean and I walked a few trails to see if he/she was around, as I walked through some of the devastation just off the trail Dean stayed on the road I had a feeling I was being watched by something.
I walked onto another track and suddenly had the feeling to turn back for some reason as I got back to Dean who was still up the road he told me he thought something was slowly stalking me through the bush but he couldn't see it.
Dogs started to go right off suddenly near the trail I had just came from so we went up there to see what was happening. We walked up this hill and stopped up the top. We stayed still for several minutes just listening to how quiet it had suddenly become then moved off again.
Walking back down I kicked a rock and it went into the lantana bushes there was sudden movement in them, we raced down Dean on one side and I on the other, there was something large and smelly in the bushes but we couldn't get into them as it was so thick besides I don't get paid to go thrashing through lantana bushes!
We tried to flush it out without success and we couldn't see anything at all, we waited there for awhile but heard nothing else so we thought it had somehow made its escape whatever it was.
We called it a night and as we walked past one of its markers I kicked it down and asked Dean to check in tomorrow morning and let me know if anything happened.
Sure enough he called the next morning saying there was heaps more damage down and a huge pile of scat next to the fallen marker, I take it he/she was not impressed with me knocking it's marker down.
Another interesting discovery was we noticed was a little lean to built near the picnic tables, this is quite unusual as it means that the yowie has some building skills if he did make it? as there was several branches leaned up against a large tree with branches crossed and leaves pushed against it, sort of like a bush wind break or cover, 10-20 yards away there is a huge shed with tables so it wouldn't be aborigines doing it, maybe kids but then again it could keep an eye on the area at night without being discovered and maybe it doesn't trust things that we humans have built.
Well in a couple of weeks hopefully we will stay there for a couple of nights to see what develops out of this area, it is only a matter of time before one is finally caught on film.
By Warren A.Y.R .
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