"If I'm really lucky I may even get to see one."
Dean Harrison of Australian Yowie Research says he has just returned from Springbrook, bearing photographs of footprints he believes are of a female yowie and her young trailing along behind.
"They seem to be quite passive around that area compared to other areas that we've been to," Mr Harrison said.
He said tales of yowies near Springbrook date back to before European settlement.
Mr Harrison said on his latest expedition he was rugby tackled by a yowie at 3am near Gympie.
"This one knocked me flying backwards. I landed in a rock pool," he said.
Australian Yowie Research has been nominated for a Bent Spoon Award on the website of Australian Skeptics, a group that investigates paranormal and pseudo scientific claims.

Hi tabsey, I'm still here and still clipping. Hope I make it through the day.

Great. Positive is the starting point.