fredriksam
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A few weeks ago i was in Australia. It was warn and nice weather there.
I have an old friend that lives there and i had saved money to travel to Australia and visit him. My family was at home, but my girlfriend was with me in Australia.
He lives in Victoria, very close to the gippsland region. Its a quite old house he lives in but its nice and cozy.
Anyway. I had read quite alot about tasmanian tigers before i left sweden and my friend said he atleast had heard these animals. A rumor says that Steve Irwin was very close finding one the day he died.
You can read about Tasmanian tigers or Thylacines as they also are called, on Wikipedia.
The airflight took a loooong time but my girlfriend and i choosed "comfortable comfort" on the flight. Therefore we could atleast sleep when we were tired. We landed and my friend was there at the airport, he then drived to his place.
We were a little tired so we didnt do much the first day. Next day we visited the museum. There we saw stuffed tasmanian tigers on display. I took some pics of them. I found a book about tassie tigers that i had searched for.
Later on the same day we bicycled some. We soon come to a quite big farm. There we saw a dead sheep that i suspected was thylacine kill. It seemed the attacker had eaten the heart out of the sheep. Thylacines often did that. Sadly the farmer didnt allowed me to take any pictures of the kill. He wanted us to move along and dont come back.
Quite near the farm we found a rest place where we drank some water and rested a while. While there we saw some devils, and some roos. The devils was "talking" alot. They didnt sounded very friendly. The roos was just jumping around.
After some time we decided to cycle home. I read a little in the book i bought and showed my friend some interresting facts about the tigers.
Next day we were in Melbourne and shopped some food, clothes and some DVD´S. I have a region free DVD player so i can play them all. We saw some commercials about a new movie, Cloverfield. We decided to buy tickets to that movie.
We then drived back to his house and later in the afternoon some of his friends come visiting and we had some nice food and drinks. We were up very late there.
Next day was the 17th January. We would go to the cinema wathing Cloverfield. We didnt do much that day. The movie was really really great by the way.
It was quite dark on the way home. I spotted something i BELIVE was a Thylacine quite near the road leading to the farmers place. I only saw it very quickly and my friend gasped in amazment. he stopped the car and we looked at each other.
He then quickly drived back to the point where we had seen the animal, but to our dismay it wasnt there anymore. It had probably loped into the nearby bush. I opened the window to hear anything but there was only dead silence.
We didnt say much the last few meters home. Atleast i said: That must have been a Thylacine. He silently nodded. We cursed ourselfs that one cannot turn back time.
Next day i was still buzzing both from the movie experince and what we had seen. We decided to cycle to that place or the farmers place and look for eventually tracks. When we come closer i noticed a land filling machine standing quite near the bush. There were workers filling on the ground.
I approached carefully and asked the first worker what they were doing there. He said they had an order to do this and was very suspicious against me and my friend. I was thinking asking him: To cover thylacine tracks or what?, but i never did.
We cycled to the rest place we had visited some days earlier. The roos seemed more nervous than before. One of them looked like it was hurt, near the left hindleg. We didnt saw any devils, though. After some time the roos jumped away from us and we were alone again.
We heard the landfill machine driving away and the farmer shouting something. After some time we decided to go back. Just then we both heard "EYiiip EYiip!" It was a really wild call, sounding nothing like i,ve heard before. My friend just smiled and said "that was a tassie call"
Of course i got very extited right there and wanted to go and search for the animal. wherever it was. However, the farmer quickly approached us and wanted to know what we were doing on "his" land.
The road we were at wasnt private or anything. I mentioned that but he didnt wanted to listen. Instead he wanted us away Pronto!!!. I couldnt resist but say: The tassie tigers are just hungry. They dont care if its yours sheep or roos they are taking. You should leave them alone.
The farmer become bloodred in his face and my friend just said, uh-oh. We Should go home, like right now. I gave the farmer the finger and got up on the bike and then we stepped on it. We probably would have beat some record there.
When we got home we laughed quite hysterical about the farmers reaction and me giving the finger. Later the farmer called and he was very angry with my fiend. My friend said to him, well call the police if ya want but they wont belive you.
After a long talk with him he finally turned off the phone. He said the famer was saying we had destroyed something inside his house and he wanted sn apologi or else he would call the police. My friend had agreed on saying sorry for my comments and promised it wouldnt happen again.
Some days later my girlfriend and i traveled home to Sweden. I was a little dissapointed i only seen a Thylacine very shortly and hadnt been quick enough to atleast record its call. I also was very dissapointed at the farmer who would keep it a secret.
If anyone have told they are still alive, many people would search for them and be happy and that. It seems no one dare to accept that they are alive somewhere out there.
Its really tragic in my opinion.
Please add your opinion what you think.
I have an old friend that lives there and i had saved money to travel to Australia and visit him. My family was at home, but my girlfriend was with me in Australia.
He lives in Victoria, very close to the gippsland region. Its a quite old house he lives in but its nice and cozy.
Anyway. I had read quite alot about tasmanian tigers before i left sweden and my friend said he atleast had heard these animals. A rumor says that Steve Irwin was very close finding one the day he died.
You can read about Tasmanian tigers or Thylacines as they also are called, on Wikipedia.
The airflight took a loooong time but my girlfriend and i choosed "comfortable comfort" on the flight. Therefore we could atleast sleep when we were tired. We landed and my friend was there at the airport, he then drived to his place.
We were a little tired so we didnt do much the first day. Next day we visited the museum. There we saw stuffed tasmanian tigers on display. I took some pics of them. I found a book about tassie tigers that i had searched for.
Later on the same day we bicycled some. We soon come to a quite big farm. There we saw a dead sheep that i suspected was thylacine kill. It seemed the attacker had eaten the heart out of the sheep. Thylacines often did that. Sadly the farmer didnt allowed me to take any pictures of the kill. He wanted us to move along and dont come back.
Quite near the farm we found a rest place where we drank some water and rested a while. While there we saw some devils, and some roos. The devils was "talking" alot. They didnt sounded very friendly. The roos was just jumping around.
After some time we decided to cycle home. I read a little in the book i bought and showed my friend some interresting facts about the tigers.
Next day we were in Melbourne and shopped some food, clothes and some DVD´S. I have a region free DVD player so i can play them all. We saw some commercials about a new movie, Cloverfield. We decided to buy tickets to that movie.
We then drived back to his house and later in the afternoon some of his friends come visiting and we had some nice food and drinks. We were up very late there.
Next day was the 17th January. We would go to the cinema wathing Cloverfield. We didnt do much that day. The movie was really really great by the way.
It was quite dark on the way home. I spotted something i BELIVE was a Thylacine quite near the road leading to the farmers place. I only saw it very quickly and my friend gasped in amazment. he stopped the car and we looked at each other.
He then quickly drived back to the point where we had seen the animal, but to our dismay it wasnt there anymore. It had probably loped into the nearby bush. I opened the window to hear anything but there was only dead silence.
We didnt say much the last few meters home. Atleast i said: That must have been a Thylacine. He silently nodded. We cursed ourselfs that one cannot turn back time.
Next day i was still buzzing both from the movie experince and what we had seen. We decided to cycle to that place or the farmers place and look for eventually tracks. When we come closer i noticed a land filling machine standing quite near the bush. There were workers filling on the ground.
I approached carefully and asked the first worker what they were doing there. He said they had an order to do this and was very suspicious against me and my friend. I was thinking asking him: To cover thylacine tracks or what?, but i never did.
We cycled to the rest place we had visited some days earlier. The roos seemed more nervous than before. One of them looked like it was hurt, near the left hindleg. We didnt saw any devils, though. After some time the roos jumped away from us and we were alone again.
We heard the landfill machine driving away and the farmer shouting something. After some time we decided to go back. Just then we both heard "EYiiip EYiip!" It was a really wild call, sounding nothing like i,ve heard before. My friend just smiled and said "that was a tassie call"
Of course i got very extited right there and wanted to go and search for the animal. wherever it was. However, the farmer quickly approached us and wanted to know what we were doing on "his" land.
The road we were at wasnt private or anything. I mentioned that but he didnt wanted to listen. Instead he wanted us away Pronto!!!. I couldnt resist but say: The tassie tigers are just hungry. They dont care if its yours sheep or roos they are taking. You should leave them alone.
The farmer become bloodred in his face and my friend just said, uh-oh. We Should go home, like right now. I gave the farmer the finger and got up on the bike and then we stepped on it. We probably would have beat some record there.
When we got home we laughed quite hysterical about the farmers reaction and me giving the finger. Later the farmer called and he was very angry with my fiend. My friend said to him, well call the police if ya want but they wont belive you.
After a long talk with him he finally turned off the phone. He said the famer was saying we had destroyed something inside his house and he wanted sn apologi or else he would call the police. My friend had agreed on saying sorry for my comments and promised it wouldnt happen again.
Some days later my girlfriend and i traveled home to Sweden. I was a little dissapointed i only seen a Thylacine very shortly and hadnt been quick enough to atleast record its call. I also was very dissapointed at the farmer who would keep it a secret.
If anyone have told they are still alive, many people would search for them and be happy and that. It seems no one dare to accept that they are alive somewhere out there.
Its really tragic in my opinion.
Please add your opinion what you think.
