Hawkesbury River
Written by AYR ADMIN   
Sunday, 18 February 2007
I thought I was mad there for a while as not many people believed me except my mates who
were there at the time , it was in the Brisbane Water National Park ( near
the Hawkesbury river in NSW and it was pretty strange).

I will give you the short of it...........

I am now a soldier in the Regular Army serving in Afghanistan , and I have
been keen on soldering for many years as a young boy and as a teenager , I
was in the cadets at the time  of the sighting, and I was in year ten at
high school , I was supposed to be going to a blue light disco with my girl
friend , but I blew that off for a camping trip at this cave up there in
the bush that me and some other cadets found a few months before whilst on
a bush trip .

I was high in the mountains , about 1.5 ks away from Wondabyne Trig , at
this area witch is a spot elevation , and around about 930. I felt guilty
that I had blown off the disco for the camping trip , so me and my mates
left the camp site , and ventured into town it would have been a startling
site to see about 6 youths dressed in full camouflage and heading to the
disco to greet her , in the end we got there as the disco finished , and I
just missed her , but I ran into my best mate who loved the bush and
camping as much as I did and he decided to grab his stuff and join us.

We walked in the darkness up the windy road to the tip , which ultimately led
to the fire trail which led to  the camping site and as we got close to the
garbage tip , we seen a small fire burning up on the tip , which we thought
was a little strange , but we just figured that the tip staff had a
controlled burn to eliminate some of the garbage.

Well we then looked up at the hill and saw a very tall bloke with longish
hair stand up and all we could see was his silhouette as it was very dark ,
it appeared that he was wearing raggy torn up clothing , but we couldn't
really see that well as he was between us and this fire.. now this is the
strange part , this thing looked down at us from the hill , as if almost he
could smell us , and then it crouched down and started bashing out the fire
with its bear hands , I was pretty scared as were the blokes I was with so
we stayed behind the cover of a few shrubs next to the trail so he couldn't
see us , but we could still see what he was doing , any way after he bashed
out the fire he picked up a stick that was still red and like a torch and
run toward the hill in the opposite direction from us , at such an
incredible speed , it was unbelievable , but it happened , with in a few
seconds he was gone .

We just though it must have been a mad man who was living in the hills
scavenging from the tip , but to bash out a fire with his bare hands was
something out of the ordinary , plus the speed he ran at , well a bit to
fast for me and to run blindly up hill just smashing through the bush .
well we were glad he didn't run toward us.

My mate who was with me said it was a yowie , and the only thing I said was that it was a
madman.

We talked about this strange thing all night still not exactly sure what we
had witnessed , but then my mate and I began to research this thing a little
further , for the following few weekends and years when we could we often
went into the bush searching for this strange creature and traces of it ,
then one Sunday on a rainy day when the tip was closed for the weekend we
were at the tip , near where all of the glass bottles were kept (maybe for
recycling)we noticed a lot of broken glass on the ground , then we saw a
giant foot print in the broken glass but the glass under the print had
just been pushed down as tough it wasn't even there??

I  have had 1 more encounter up at the tip , and another at a place called
Rocky ponds which is about 6 ks away from the tip.

I love the bush up there , when ever I am on leave I often still go back to
the cave , but never unarmed , there is something out there and I don't want
to ever be on its bad side , most of my mates have since been married and
moved away, I am now 32 and live in Townsville , but my mate and I still
believe that he is out there still.

I told my folks at the time , they thought it was our imagination , but I
have seen some frightening things in my years , but nothing compares to the
cold fear that night.
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