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Beulah Rock Festivus is no more... 19-Jun-2013 At 8:46:23 PM ashfall tuff

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there is also the story of the fossilised yowie..

scavaging for boulders along a dry creek bed me and a friend were struck by an odd earthy overhang not typical of granite, nope nothing to say it was granite - no quartz, mica or feldspar. this rock was fine grained, finer than sandstone - sedimentary I believe possibly mudstone like nowra's cheesedale. no layering tho it was just a plain face about 4m h x 9m l.

searching around for holds we found some oddly shape nubins resembling fragments of bone. at the time we'd not thought much of this.. we worked the only featured face problem on this bit of rock... simple straitforward footers and simmetrical hand holds 5 nubins on each one for each finger. we brushed and brushed excited by its unusualness... the problem was a simple one move wonder to this slope we called the cranky cranium.. as it resembled a rather oversized skull.. there were even shallow mono pockets resembling eye socktes! freaky hey.. anyway we persisted. def the sloper cranium was the easier option here - the dbl mono's were just to spoogy, not to mention my mates joky squeels every time i nearly stuck it - 'EYE EYE Captain' he says. anyway after getting spanked like a monkey on this boulder we decided to move on. my friend wanted to take a few pics, so finding a good spot to get full view we scrambled back and yup yup we sawd it.. 8-9ft maybe the cranky sloper finish protuded to an obvious glossy skull shape - the mono's definatly look easier from this angle. but strangely what was more concerning was the skeleton like appearance, the footers resembled phalanges, the crimpy body.. well thats exacktly what it was - ribs. useless as intermediates but thats what they looked like. not to mention the open arm appearance. a fossilised yowie - 'clouted with a mountin of mud while doing a star jump'. my mate hastily took the pics saying he'd send them to the museum. i havent heard from him you know, i thought the dirt bagger did a runner with my new camelots.