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Topic: 1970s West Coast of SA
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PMinAU
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posted 22-12-2007 16:48
  
In 1974 {I think it was 1974, could have been 1975] I was driving back to Adelaide on vacation from my teaching post in Port Lincoln. At about 10 am on a bright and sunny day, somewhere north of North Shields and south of Tumby Bay, a strange animal drifted out of the scrub to the side of the road, so I had a clear view of it as I passed within 3 metres of it and could still see it in the rear view mirror after passing. I had never seen such an animal before. To my eternal regret I did not stop and take a picture. Also, my passenger was napping at the time, and I didn't want to wake her. I later sent a sketch and details to the SA Museum asking what the animal was. At that stage, I still thought it must be some strange sort of fox. I was surprised and a little insulted to receive a pro-forma response that said in essence, "Your sketch is of a thylacine, therefore you can't have seen it". Within a fortnight, the local newspaper Port Lincoln Times carried a reporting by a carload of interstate passengers who claimed to have seen a thylacine on a road possibly 30-50 km from my sighting. I am not aware of any sightings on the West Coast of SA since, and given last year's devastating fires through that area, along with previous fires, the chances of any having survived over the years is minimal.IP: Logged |
Palorchestes
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posted 23-12-2007 21:58
That's an interesting sighting. You were lucky enough to get really close to it.
The map at http://www.tasmanian-tiger.com/sightings.htm shows that there have been some others in that general area. Hope you have the camera ready next time!IP: Logged |
jocasta.latrell@gmail.com
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posted 18-10-2008 21:27
My father told me of a sighting he had around that time in the same general area. I know that he was teaching in Tumby Bay at the time.
He was driving home one night and saw something in his rear-vision mirror. He thought that it might have been a stray or lost dog so he slowed right down. He noticed that it wasnt running as a dog was running, it was loping, and he likened it to a horse only more awkward. Anyway, apparently it ran alongside the car for a short distance and then veered off. The weird thing is, when he called Parks and Wildlife to tell them, after he had finished with 'Im gonna sound crazy but I think I've seen a Tasmanian Tiger in South Australia,' the guy on the phone told exactly him where he had been when he saw the tiger without being told himself. There had been that many sitings in the area in a short amount of time that he had the location memorised.
When I read this thread, I had to post  IP: Logged |
youcantryreachingme
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posted 22-12-2008 23:08
Very interesting. There were many sightings in south-east South Australia in the late 1960s and early 1970s. One theory has it that land was being opened up to farmers and as the forests were cleared the thylacines were spotted. Does anyone know if a similar situation existed near Port Lincoln during the early 1970s? Forgive my ignorance on SA. history!IP: Logged | |
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