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Carrai Ranges

Results of the Gilroy/Foster Carrai Range, Kempsey, New South Wales Yowie Expedition.

by Rex Gilroy
Copyright © Rex Gilroy 2008.

This investigation, part of the on-going “Operation Yowie” project, aimed at gathering good circumstantial, as well as possible physical evidence, on the existence of these relict hominids, began with myself, my wife Heather, and Greg Foster our leading field assistant/webmaster, arriving in Kempsey on Monday 8th September 2008.

On Tuesday morning we drove up into the Carrai Range, our destination being the remote region of the Carrai known as the Oxley Wild Rivers National Park, which is located on the New England side of the Range. There is a vast wilderness region here containing country not yet explored on foot by Europeans, due largely to its inaccessibility, and it is from within this vast wilderness that old Aboriginal traditions of the Yowies, or “hairy people” have originated

It must be emphasized here that the world ‘Yowie’ meant “Hairy man” or “Hairy people”, not because these hominids were/are covered in long thick hair, but because of the animal [ie marsupial] hide garments they wore like the early Aboriginal tribespeople.

Thus the Yowie is no hairy ape-like monster as many people mistakenly believe, but a primitive tool-making, fire-making hominid. In fact, all available evidence points to the Yowie as being surviving remnant populations of Homo erectus, our immediate ancestor. Heather and I have made expeditions to the Carrai Range in the past, but apart from gathering sightings reports from Kempsey district residents, we had up to the present been unsuccessful in finding any evidence of continuing Yowie activity in the Carrai wilderness. This is, happily, no longer the case.

Carrai Pgymy Casts

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Two Possible Pgymy Prints Found By Greg Foster on a remote Section of road in the Carrai Range.They are both left feet impressions. The right foot: The foot on the right is 17 cms in length by 11 cms across the toes and 5.5 cms across the heel.

The left foot: The foot on the left is 18.5 cms in length by 11.2 cms across the toes and 8.5 cms width across the heel. The two specimens are 2 cms in depth and considering distortion in the original sloppy mud were probably made by a single individual.

Carrai View

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The vast mountain region in the background

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Until ten years ago logging had been carried out on the Carrai Range until finally stopped by the State Government. Since then only the odd tourists and four-wheel drive vehicles of campers and others continue to use the one narrow rough dirt road that crosses the range, and then mostly on weekends. Thus the region is mostly quiet and little frequented by people and in the more remote areas quite eerie. Here one often has the feeling of being watched from afar, or even being followed by ‘something’.

It was to such an area that we drove on Tuesday 9th September. As luck would have it we stopped to take photos of a view to the south though trees on a cliffside section of the road. There had been heavy rain in the Kempsey district the previous Friday, and in the still moist ground near our vehicle, Greg discovered scuff marks in roadside soil.

At first I thought he had found lyre bird scratchings but instead among a lot of indistinct disturbance of the soil, he found two small feet impressions. We cast these and camouflaged them for later pick-up on the way out, so as to save time and continued on.

We did not know it until the casts were picked up [on our way out in darkness] and later cleaned, but it appears that these tracks [both left feet impressions] display pygmy features, for one thing the small toe on each track is placed a little further down the side of the foot than in normal humans.

There are traditions of a ‘lost’ pygmy race in remote regions of the east coastal New South Wales mountain ranges, and in the Carrai region in particular.

Continuing on, we eventually explored a remote area, where in a clearing we came across a drying muddy patch containing a mass of animal tracks. Among these we found a number of undoubted small to larger, mostly indistinct and often overlapping hominid feet impressions, and among which despite distortions in the now dried, but originally sloppy mud, we were lucky to find at least eight recognizable tracks.

One of these tracks was that of an undoubted monstrous-sized hominid, for the huge footprint measured 51cm in length by 31.5cm width across the toes and 11.5cm across the heel. It was embedded 5cm deep in the hardened mud. This right foot impression was near another large but somewhat distorted footprint, which was 36cm in length by 29cm width across the toes and 16cm width across the heel, and embedded 4cm deep in the mud. It too was a right foot impression.

We also found two left and right tracks which, allowing for distortion in the originally wet mud and slightly smaller size of the right footprint, were probably made by a single individual. The largest right track was 40cm in length by 26.5cm width across the toes and 14cm across the heel, being 4cm deep in the mud. The left foot impression was also 40cm in length by 23cm across the toes and 14cm across the heel by 3.5cm in depth.

These feet impressions had been made by beings of considerable height and muscular strength. The physical structure of these huge footprints compares with others in my collection of Yowie footprint casts.

Several years ago I realised structural differences between those of the usually smaller, average human height Yowies and those of these giant-size beings. Both footprint types have the mark of Homo erectus about them, yet they represented two distinct forms. Giant forms of Homo erectus are known from the fossil record in South-East Asia, and from my own researches here in Australia also.

Other researchers had overlooked the structural differences of both footprint types. I therefore, as the discoverer of this second [giant] race of Yowie, gave it the name of ‘Rexbeast’!

These Rexbeast giants reach up to 3.66 metres in height, their females somewhat below this at around 2.8metres. It was obvious that the smaller large footprints found at this remote site were probable females.

At least three giant-size Rexbeast hominids were represented in these tracks, but there were also small feet impressions of juvenile size beings. By now the daylight was going so we had to leave these tracks until the following day, when we would cast the above tracks just described, including the best of the juvenile-size specimens, a track measuring 17cm in length by 13cm width across the toes and 6.2cm at the heel, embedded 3cm deep in the hard mud.

However, on our drive out through the forest country, Greg and I had Heather stop the car while we investigated a forested hillside I recalled from a visit some years before, and where there had been claimed sightings of Yowies by campers on a number of occasions. It was here, as we scanned the scrub from a high point that, below us we spied in the dim light four hominid shapes, moving about and obviously aware of our presence, for they stood watching us from some distance away.

I had been first to spot two average-height beings standing on the edge of a clearing, one moved forward to stand beside a tree to observe me. Greg meanwhile spotted two more a little way to the south of these beings. As he watched this other pair emerge from shrubbery one appeared to stand about 2.8 metres tall, the other, smaller figure moved in front of it.

Then as we watched, they melted back into the darkness of the forest. After this experience we hurried back to tell Heather. We drove through the darkness along that narrow, rugged dirt road, eventually retrieving the two earlier cast tracks.

On Wednesday 10th September we returned to the Carrai and reaching the footprint site we cast the tracks just described. We also returned to the scene of the encounter with the four hominids. Searching the area we came upon the indistinct impressions of their footprints in grass.

I also found three indistinct tracks at the foot of the tree where that hominid had stood to observe me. Greg meanwhile found a track through the shrubbery through which his two hominids had emerged, and here he found a freshly snapped branch.

Time was against us and the day once again was coming to a close. We kept a watch here hoping for another appearance of the strange beings, but they did not return and we returned to the car to once more make the slow, careful drive through those ghostly forests on that rough old loggers track back to civilisation.

Plans are already afoot to return to the Carrai in the near future to continue our investigations. Yet what we have already turned up is more than enough evidence to convince us that Yowies, in both their smaller and Rexbeast forms, still roam that vast, eerie wilderness, alongside the mysterious little pygmy folk.

Rex and Heather Gilroy can be contacted at the “Australian Yowie Research Centre”.
Phone 02 4782 3441;
email randhgilroy@optusnet.com.au; or
PO Box 202, Katoomba, NSW 2780.

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Carrai Mountains Photo left: The Dense Forest of the Mountains
   
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Carrai Mountains - Horses Photo left: The Dense Forest of the Mountains - Rex & Friendly Horses
   
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Carrai Mountains Photo left: The Dense Forest of the Mountains
   
Carrai Mountains Photo left: The Dense Forest of the Mountains
   
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Cast - Rexbeast

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The largest of the hominid tracks (Rexbeast) found at the foot prints site. A right foot impression: It measures 51 cms in length by 31.5 cms width across the toes and 11.5 cms width at the heel being 5 cms in depth.

Cast - Rexbeast

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This distorted giant hominid track (Rexbeast) measures 36 cms in length by 29 cms width across the toes and 16 cms across the heel. Slightly distorted in shape at the time of making, it is 4 cms in depth and is a left foot impression.

Cast - Rexbeast

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This Rexbeast track is 40 cms in length by 23 cms width across the toes and 14 cms across the heel by 3.5 cms in depth. A right foot impression, it is believed to be the mate of the next giant track allowing for size distortion in the wet mud.

Cast - Rexbeast

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This mate, to the the previous foot impression, also measuring 40 cms in legnth is 26.5 cms across the toes by 14.5 cms across the heel and is 4 cms in depth.

Carrai Cast

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One of the smaller tracks found at the giant hominid foot print site, this juvenile sized impression measures 17 cms in length by 13 cms width across the toes and 6 cms across the heel by 3 cms in depth.

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