22/02/2024
National Yowie Day
Border Ranges Yowie Sighting #1321 NSW/QLD
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1321..Year 1987 Time late afternoon 4:30pm approximately and 8pm in September. Colour Dark brown to black. Height approximately 7 foot. Location Grady's Creek along Border fence Border Ranges NP. I was doing hike with permission of NPWS looking at campsites for overnight treking business along the border fence out towards My Lindsey. Had entered the forest at the top of Brindle Creek and crossed over in Grady's then travelled West along the border fenceline. At one point I had to take off my pack and make my way through low branch's of a small Grove of leopard trees. I'd found on the ground a couple of small tubes of army issue condensed milk and smelt something bad and thought perhaps soldier had done a bad job hiding his p**p. It got stronger and became decidedly more like a dead animal as I came out the other side, put my pack on an continued through rainforest proper. About five minutes later I heard the braking of branches ahead of me and caught sight of this massive figure break out onto the track about 15 metres ahead of me, cross it and continue crashing through the scrub to the north. I was stopped dead in my tracks trying to process what I'd seen. It was perhaps less than 5 seconds but it was around seven feet tall. I didn't see it's face distinctly but lasting memory was of it's bulking shoulders and pointed head and length of its arms. In the dappled light if the forest it was dark brown to black but the hair was shorter on it's head and shoulders than arms and back. I hurried on to where it crossed the track and could hear it crashing through the scrub for four or five minutes. Then I decided to not turn back but continue west towards the Risk because it was closer and I would be out in the open more and see the thing coming at me. I got to the old tin hut the tickies used to camp in as it was getting on dark and pitched my tent, cooked a meal then went to bed. But I was so freaked I couldn't sleep. At about 8 pm I heard loud foot falls outside the tent and something knocked over my Billy and plate then went off towards the west. I packed up everything and fled by torchlight to the Risk getting there about 2am and sat on the side of the road till morning. A week later I was back there with the biologist in our business and showed him where I'd seen it cross the track. We looked but aside from the odd broken branch found no tracks and the smell was not evident any longer. Now I've spent many years, I'm now 70, in the bush, been a bushman guide in the Blue Mountains, a seasonal ranger, heritage officer, stockman in my youth on the New England, lived over twenty years in remote East Arnhem land but never seen anything like this creature. I've only spoken to a couple of people about it, some being local Bunjalung elders, who helped me understand the history of them locally
