People are naturally excited about these and other unexplained mysteries and want to read all the available literature about them. But there can be nothing more exciting than actually participating in the search for such creatures. I therefore feel privileged to be the founder of yowie research in Australia, and to have encouraged others to follow my example. He is planning a safari into the area where the large footprints were found by a creek. He recently took further plaster casts of footprints in the Jamieson Valley which were 45cms by 35cms.
Accurate drawing is a reconstruction from eyewitnesses' tales.
Note the shape of the feet. The recent anxiety among truck drivers on the Newell Highway about giant hairy Yowies is not new and can be traced back to Yowie activity in the 1870's, says Rex Gilroy, Director of Mount York Natural History Museum near Katoomba, and Australia's leading Authority on Yowies. In fact is was barricaded recently because certain weird and unexplained things have been happening up there. One truckie was parked on a desolate part of the highway north of Coonabarabran recently with a load of cattle on his truck. They started bellowing and woke him up.