Guest Posted August 15, 2012 Posted August 15, 2012 Qantas I always wondered why those extra legroom seats are never available.
Guest Posted August 15, 2012 Posted August 15, 2012 There are a number of sightings of bigfoot swimming in open water, like this one off the coast of Oregon, swimming with seals. I can't find the reference but there was a sighting from a ferry where several passengers saw a BF swimming from the Olympic Peninsula to Whidbey Island, a distance of several miles in very strong currents. Other sightings up in the channel islands off the coast of BC have also been reported. Regarding the danger of sharks... well, maybe the BF go out there "trolling" for sharks... Yes, but 15 miles???
southernyahoo Posted August 15, 2012 Posted August 15, 2012 One foot in front of the other.... http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200512/23/eng20051223_230327.html..... Those tracks look kinda squatchy. Mungo man is suppose to be kinda big too.
Guest BlurryMonster Posted August 15, 2012 Posted August 15, 2012 The same way the aboriginals did Aboriginals used boats. Can bigfoot build boats now?
Guest BFSleuth Posted August 16, 2012 Posted August 16, 2012 Yes, but 15 miles??? Your comment piqued my interest. I know that many of the Channel Islands and other islands off the coast of British Columbia have BF sighting reports, so I jumped on Google Earth with the Mangini places to see how far some of these islands are from the coast. One island stood out as being farther from the coast than any other, but it didn't have any icons showing a sighting report: Graham Island, BC. So I did a google search for bigfoot sightings on Graham Island, BC, and came up with this interesting web site (steelhead fishing enthusiasts will enjoy!). Note the following quote: "Dyment was our guide for our duration. A transplant from the mainland, he now lives year-round on Graham Island in the small hamlet of Tlell with his wife and two children. He’s as knowledgeable as anyone about the Yakoun, its history and its idiosyncrasies. One minute he’ll educate you on the HaidaGwaii Indians and then send shivers up your spine with tales of Bigfoot on the island." Note the distance from the mainland or nearest island to Graham Island is a little over 30 miles at the northern end. The passage is pretty shallow, so it could be said that they simply walked across during a period of low sea level and then stayed as an isolated population. Raincoast Sasquatch has a number of reports of BF seen swimming well out from shore, including "hunting" for salmon by frog kicking underwater. Here's a report of BF swimming with sea lions off the coast of Oregon. BF seen diving "like a man with extended arms" into a river, never saw it come up after waiting 20 minutes. This means it either swam an extended distance and exited the water to avoid detection or had some kind of air pocket to get to. They are big, strong, and have large lung capacity. They have been observed diving underwater for long distances, going after salmon in open water, swimming with seals, and boarded boats offshore. I don't see a 15 mile swim outside their range of capabilities. I don't think the islands off the coast are inhabited by isolated populations that are "stuck" after the last ice age, either. It is more likely that they swim readily, probably dive for shellfish, fish, and seaweed, and swim to "island hop" in search of new areas for foraging and for mates.
Guest brucescotland Posted August 17, 2012 Posted August 17, 2012 Although off at a tangent, ive been waiting for someone to mention Australia/yowie.... I recall when younger watching the bush tucker man programmes with les hiddens....he has spent months and months in isolation in all kinds of terrain, all over the country... surely if anybody could shed some light on the Yowie it would be him? Are there any Australians on the forum who know if hes been asked about the Yowie and what his thoughts-opinions are??
Guest Strick Posted August 17, 2012 Posted August 17, 2012 Yeah, Les remembers coming across some gorilla-type nests many years ago and he doesn't write off the possibility of the Yowie. I think it was in the Northern Territory, possibly the Kimberly. I'm pretty sure that Healy and Cropper mention it in their book 'Yowie - Australia's Bigfoot'. I think it's a shame we don't get more Yowie stuff on the forum these days.
Guest BFSleuth Posted August 17, 2012 Posted August 17, 2012 Ever since catching the BF "bug" a few years ago I've been fascinated by the variety of reports from all around the world of various bipedal hairy beings in the forests. I know that other Australian members of the BFF have brought up Yowie sightings, so you can use the forum search feature and look for "yowie" and find a number of threads or posts about the topic. It also seems like there is more than one type of hairy hominid in Australia, can't remember the Aboriginal term for the smaller one, but there was a thread about that recently (likely in the Cryptozoological forums). I never knew about Les Hiddins until your post, brucescotland. I found his Facebook page, and now I've got a new source of information with thanks to you.
Guest Strick Posted August 17, 2012 Posted August 17, 2012 The little ones are known by various names. I prefer Junjuddis. For Premium members, Neil Frost's thread on BFF1 is highly entertaining, detailing years of activity right outside his house.
Guest MikeG Posted August 17, 2012 Posted August 17, 2012 I think it was in the Northern Territory, possibly the Kimberly. You know that the Kimberlies are in WA, not the Northern Territory? There's plenty of wild, wild country up there to hide something unusual.....
yowiie Posted August 17, 2012 Posted August 17, 2012 (edited) You guys have it all wrong Les HIddens found the nest structures in Far North Queensland, trust me. Les Hiddens my self are both mentioned in the Healy cropper book on Yowies, we have both discivered these bed structures, but I beat him to it. Lol The little ones are known by various names. I prefer Junjuddis. For Premium members, Neil Frost's thread on BFF1 is highly entertaining, detailing years of activity right outside his house. Yes that's correct and not one bit of evidence to support his 300 odd encounters, funny that Edited August 17, 2012 by yowiie
Guest Strick Posted August 17, 2012 Posted August 17, 2012 I stand corrected. If I'd have just waited til I got home from work and checked my copy of the Cropper and Healy book I'd have known that Hiddens found the Yowie nests in Far North Queensland. I think you can track this down on Google, but I don't think we can link to those sites. It had slipped my mind the Kimberly was in WA and not the NT. When I visited the area I travelled up the West coast from Perth and, to be honest, it took weeks and all merges in to one these days. I just scratched the surface of the Kimberley on the Gibb River Road. It's a fantastic area and who know what lurks out that way, as you said Mike. The Cropper and Healy book is a wonderful resource and I recommend it to anyone interested in the Yowie. They spend a long time discussing the OP' s question on how the creatures got to Australia. Neil Frost ran a highly entertaining thread on the old forum and was always really nice to me personally. I agree that there was very little presented as hard evidence given all the encounters he claimed. The main issue I have with the Cropper and Healy book concerns the provenance of the vast majority of the sightings listed - they emanate from just a couple of different sources and there are some question marks hovering over those sources, in my opinion. I can't wait to see the 'Finding Bigfoot' episode from Australia. Bobo has said that the audio recorded there was perhaps the best he's ever obtained. Yowiie, did you help with the Queensland section of the episode in any way?
yowiie Posted August 19, 2012 Posted August 19, 2012 Strick I did not have anything to do with the episode filmed here in Australia, I would like to have been asked.
Guest Posted August 19, 2012 Posted August 19, 2012 I was contacted by an Animal Planet researcher a few months back in regards to Finding Bigfoot's Australian show, but I politely brushed it off as I wasn't really interested. Sometimes things like that can be nothing but a hindrance and if they're filming in your research area can undo things that you've spent months trying to achieve in regards to trust and establishing a kind of a comfort with you being in their territory. Getting your mug on the screen usually comes at a price, I really can't figure out why people want to do it IMHO. Oh and my guess is Qantas too... lol. (Nice one Strick! ) Cheers, Kraig
Guest Strick Posted August 19, 2012 Posted August 19, 2012 Yakcam, You must be one of those rare people these days who can resist the limelight and filthy lucre in our celebrity obsessed culture! On a completely different note, anyone got the inside scoop on the lack of Yowie sightings from Tasmania? I've read the 2 reports on the well known Australian site, which I think are also in Cropper and Healy. I know Tasmnania is not huge, but areas like the Tarkine in the NW are are among the largest tracts of temperate rainforest in the Southern Hemisphere and ideal habitat I would have thought. I think it's larger than the Olympic Peninsula West of Seattle and that area is absolutely chokka with Bigfoots if some American researchers are to be believed.
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