Quest
to find yowie in Coast's Hinterland
Andrew Potts
AUSTRALIA'S leading yowie hunter is preparing to lead a team of 12 people in
to the Gold Coast Hinterland in a bid to prove the legend exists. Over the
years, yowie hunters and tourists have come to the Hinterland in search of the
beast, but veteran hunter Rex Gilroy is determined he will succeed. The first
reported sighting at Springbrook was made in 1886 by local indigenous tribes. More
famous than that, though, was a sighting in 1979 when Bill O'Chee, later a
Nationals senator, spotted what he said was a yowie while on camp with 20
fellow students from The Southport School. Mr Gilroy, the Australian Yowie
Research Centre director, will begin his search next month."I have a few
plaster casts of large footprints from the Hinterland, which interestingly
enough match similar prints found near Coffs Harbour," he said.
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