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Last login: 43 hours agoSilvermagpie: Susanna, Southern Shaman is a woman from Melbourne Au, VIC, Australia.; Likes 92 pages, 5 videos, 2 photos • 26 fans • Received 3 reviews; Member since Aug 23, 2006

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downunder update & Blog Archive & Yowie, Sasquatch of the South: Aug 14, 2:31pm 1 review bizarre, cryptozoology, big-foot, sasquatch, yowie
http://www.downunderupdate.com/2008/01/27/yowie-sasquatch-of-the-south/; From the page: "The Yowie is an unidentified hominid reputed to lurk in the Australian bush. He is said to be a large, gorilla-like creature over seven foot tall and covered with thick dark brown hair.

Yowies reputedly live in remote mountainous or thickly-forested areas of South Eastern Australia. Reports have continued from the 19th century to the present day, and well over 3000 reports of a huge, hairy, ape like creature with very big feet have been lodged.

The Yowie is very similar to Bigfoot, or the Sasquatch, a cousin of the Himalayan Yeti, but sightings of the Australian creature have been reported from 1881 to 1997, well before any reports of the Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas.

The New Zealand Yowie

The Moehau State Forest is a conservation zone, the only part of mainland New Zealand with a wilderness area of forest extending from the sub-artic montane at the top of Moehau to the sub-tropical waters of the Hauraki Gulf. Much of the highlands is a shallow swampy basin, above the tree-line, frequently covered in mist and overflowing to a 200m high waterfall that feeds the Okahutahi Steam at Big Sandy Bay.

In this broadleaf forest, with good stands of regenerating Kauri & Rimu, hides the elusive New Zealand Yowie.

Bunyip?

In Australia the Yowie has been spotted in rainforests, appearing from behind the giant tree- ferns, and in the arid scrub country. Some travellers have met Yowies near the chilly pools at the bottom of a waterfall, and some have reported a sighting along riverbanks. This could be a case of mistaken identity, for the riverbanks are home to the Bunyip.

Kilcoy

Kilcoy is a small and unassuming country town in South East Queensland with a population a little over 1000 most of whom are employed servicing the surrounding pastoral area. The residents claim that their major attraction is a large wooden statue of a very well endowed male Yowie. With monotonous regularity, local wags, schoolboys or the morally outraged will come along and emasculate the Yowie statue. Of much more interest to visitors to Kilcoy is the Woodford Folk Festival just 20 km up the road, held each year from December 27 to New Years Day. The festival attracts around 85,000 people (and the occasional Yowie).

Australopithecine?

Yowies may be descendents of Gigantopithecus, a version of robust Australopithecine, or a mega-version of Homo erectus descended from Java Man. Rex Gilroy, the Yowie Man believes the Yowie is of the Gigantopithecus family.

There are many ideas as to what this creature may be, perhaps even a bipedal marsupial.

And some say that the Yowie is a Spirit from the Dreamtime."

YouTube - My Island Home: Aug 6, 8:40pm 1 review animation, video, second-life, machinma
http://video.stumbleupon.com/?p=joeh340tqm; Just getting the knack of youtube. (We all start somewhere)
40 seconds worth - a little peek into Second Life

Conquering The Himalayas On Bike: Aug 4, 5:29pm 1 review travel, bike-rides, himalyayas
http://www.squidoo.com/delhiladakh; Absolutely amazing!This couple went over the Himalayas on a bike! (Royal Enfield)The photos are beautiful (of course)and the author includes some practical advice for the next time you feel like traveling over the High Passes.

I think I'll stick with my armchair travel :)

Freya: Aug 4, 5:08am 1 review mythology, goddess, valkyries, norns, scandinavian-mythology
http://www.squidoo.com/freya; The Wild Woman of the North.
These squidoos are pretty amazing things, I can see them going a long way.
Here's a video of the Pagan North, information about Freya, the Norns, Valkyries and a message for modern times

Huon Valley: Aug 2, 5:17am 1 review history, travel, australia
http://www.squidoo.com/huontrail; These squidoo lenses are an interesting way of looking at the web. Just one topic, one focus, one issue and no extraneous material.

This one is about the far south of Australia, the Huon Valley with its old fashioned atmosphere and apples apples apples

Free Recipes Home - Your Home for Favorite Free Recipes: Jul 29, 8:13am 2 reviews cooking, homemaking
http://www.freerecipeshome.com/; Simple and easy, hard to find plain old fashioned food like Mum used to make

Pesticides: Dont Kill the Good Guys: Jul 21, 6:19am 1 review environment, poison, pesticide, insect-life
http://www.squidoo.com/pesticidesinsects; Pesticides - what they really are

Cuddly and Creepy Australians: Jul 19, 7:42am 1 review animals, wildlife, australian-fauna, cuddly-animals
http://www.squidoo.com/cuddlyandcreepy; Cuddly and Creepy Australians.

Have you ever cuddled a koala?

They're warm, furry and they smell beautiful!

Plenty of other animals can be cuddly too, or at least look cuddly, like this Tasmanian Devil who, besides being a bit on the nose, has extremely strong teeth and jaws.

Australian animals have spent a long, long time separated from the rest of the world - on a life raft as it were - evolving in isolation for roughly 45 million years. Being so long separated from the rest of the large land masses allowed different evolutionary paths, and the Marsupials took the front seat.

There are all sorts of creatures in Australia, like mammals which lay eggs.

Some are cuddly and some are creepy. Come and meet a few.