Just the yowie hunter here,
Has anyone had an experience with stick tapping.
I was in one of my locations about 12 months ago and had been out searching a few areas where I had collected evidence before. And returned to camp and was sitting around the fire having a quite beer and I heard a distinct noise directly in front of me, probably about 40metres away. It was just a tap tap, I listened again tap tap but this time it had moved a bit to my left. I said to the guy that was with me can you here that and he listened for the sound it was there again but this time it was again around a bit further to the left. Anyway this tapping kept going for around ten minutes and in that time it a had moved a total of about a 270degree radius around us in an anti clock motion. I was trying to pick up any eye shine with out any luck anyway it got the best of me when I heard a tap tap I immediately got up and run in the direction of the noise. Well that did cause some scrambling in the bush, this yowie left the seen like you wouldn't believe he left a path of broken trees and limbs. I'm pretty glad he went the otherway an not come toward me.
Anyone else had this sought of thing happen

Do you have a photgraphic record of this path of broken trees and limbs that you can post?

How loud was it? I'm wondering if this could be the same or similar to what some people here call "Wood Knocking". Or do you have woodpeckers or some sort of bird that drills into trees to find bugs under the bark that may have made the same type of noise? Since you heard the "Tap Tap" but didn't hear branches breaking are you sure they are related? Or just circumstantial that the broken branches were found in the same direction the sounds appeared to be coming from?

its the basis of a not sure for me...

The noise of the tapping itself could be heard over our conversation. this event took place at about 10pm at night. As for the bird theory thats out the window we do not have birds like the woodpecker. Why did I have to here branches breaking?This animal was circling us with only thie intention of bringing our intention to him, the tapping continued in the complete 270 degree arc. There would be no other explanation for this. When this animal fled the seen it appeared to be quite heavy as you could here the footfall on the ground and it was bipedal.



The photo I have doesnt quite capture the scene I will post on site

Simply if you believe the tapping was intended to draw your attention, breaking of branches would have drawn even more attention. Since you didn't hear the branches break I was wondering if they may have already been broken before the tapping began. If so then it wouldn't really be evidence of anything relating to this incident. Of course the heavy footfalls which sounded like something bipedal retreating the area would be significant.

Where were you? Were you in Abo Country? Or near the city?

I was thinking LandShark, White Pointer type.

or

A Roo trying to get a stick that was stuck to his tail, off.

Why did the animal have to break a branch, why couldn't it have picked to sticks of the ground to do the tapping

Ummmmm I didn't say he couldn't have.. you're the one that associated the Broken Branches and Trees with this Yowie. I was simply asking how you knew this Yowie had anything to do with the broken branches and trees you claim prove he left the scene in a hurry. If you didn't hear the branches and trees breaking, then HOW do you know it was him that did it?

Sorry I just misunderstood what you had written, the reason I believe the Yowie had broken these branches was I was in that are earlier that day and everything was intact. these were very fresh breaks and the only other animal of any siz ein that area is kangaroos.

Well that does narrow it down and thank you. Since you observed everything was intact earlier, you heard this stick tapping then afterwards it left. At some time later you noticed the now broken trees and branches. Since you didn't hear any trees or branches breaking before or later at some time after this thing had left the area I can understand how you might attribute that to being caused during the possible Yowie visit.

Have you had any experiences like this or similar.

Personally I can't say that I have, although a number of members on the board have had experiences with "Wood Knocking" which may be similar, which is why I was trying to get a description of how loud it was. I suppose if there wasn't any really big branches laying around, one might use a smaller branch to try to obtain the same effect. I have heard Knocking or tapping sounds in the woods before, but most of which I was able to identify either as woodpeckers or male deer sparring with each other tapping their antlers together. I don't think you have any antlered mammals there that would go through a similar process do you?

There was one time when I was still living in Oregon while up in the forest I just happened to hear a tapping sound that sounded like deer antlers, but this was too early to be rut season. As I sat there I took a stick and started hitting it on a log to produce the same tempo and about the same volume as what I was hearing. I thought it was funny because it did seem like it was answering me, mimicking the number of taps I produced. However, as always I won't say or even suggest it may have been bigfoot unless I actually see a bigfoot doing it. There's too many other possibilities that would have to be ruled out first. For all I know it could have simply been a pot field guard or meth lab operator up there just trying to freak me out at the time. When the woods get that thick and you can't see more than a few yards ahead of you, and are aware of those kinds of dangers existing, you think twice about blindly trudging through the brush to discover the source. It was apparent if it were one of those sources, they knew I was there, which meant they probably had a good view of me and I didn't of them. A definate disadvantage that clearly puts the odds in their favor for coming out on top. Had someone else been with me at the time that could have stayed with the truck, and able to summon help if the need arose or even acted as a backup it would have been a different story. I may take risks from time to time that others might not, but I'm not stupid.

I have done the same thing with the log and have had a few replies, nothing close but were quite noticable in the distance. I am heading out tomorrow night to try and get a response.

You're calling it a yowie without having seen it. You indicated the nests you found were yowie as well. No doubt you have all kinds of experience with this stuff and what the hell do I know. Still, I always shake my head when I hear this comming from folks who assume everything is bf (or yowie) related without having seen the animal making the racket.

I heard knocking once. I was inspecting a crown land lot for timber potential with another forest technician. He had a half interest in bigfoot as well. We knew it wasn't a woodpecker or anything else that would make such a noise and we decided to follow the sound. We found a guy hammering spiles into maple trees in preparation for tapping. My point is, it could be anything. It could be a bf too I know but the odds are it probably isn't.

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Whatever.

You still haven't answered my question as to whether you were in Aborgini country.

In one area that I search there has been aboriginal tribes in the area ,going back about 110years. I have found a few artifacts that have been left spears and axes

I once heard a noise like that outside my house so naturally i ran out with my camera but all i saw was a stupid woodpecker...

Terry made a legitimate comment on your encounter with whatever it was. I was thinking the same thing myself. All this story is dealing with... is your own imagination, as you have not a single shred of evidence to back your assumption that some yowie was involved.
That fact that you imagined it was a yowie should be enough for everyone else?

Did the stick tapping occur in an area where there are active Aborigine tribes?
How far from the nearest paved road were you when the stick tapping happened?
How far from the nearest residential areas when the stick tapping happened?

I am trying to ascertain how far out in the boonies you were WHEN THE STICK TAPPING HAPPENED.

There ar no tribes of aboriginals anywhere in Northern New south wales or for that matter the eastern sea board of Australia, there are quite a number of them in northern Queensland and Northern Territory.
The closest paved road would be about 18klms to this location.
The nearest town is 18klms away.
This area is very remote and doesn't get any visitors at all apart from my self.

So are you the only guy walkin around out there or ar ethere other people searchiing?

I am the only person actively searching for these animals in this area( I take another person most times to this area) In Australia there are not as many people researching these animals as there are in USA.

Wow i thought there would be more people researching?

I know of only about a dozen people that are actively searching, but I imagine that there would be alot more I don't know about.

Thats weird I thought more people would be more interested?

There could be hundreds of people looking that I don't know about, people are interested to talk about teh subject but baulk at the thought of actually going out looking. We have a lot of skeptical people in Oz.