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Chapter 2: The Early Days

The magnificent panorama of the Coorong, a lagoon in south-eastern South Australia, where the author believes he had his first sighting of the Tasmanian tiger in 1967

 

Chapter 3: New Directions

David Fleay examines the grisly remains of a wallaby on the Jane River track, west coast of Tasmania 1946

Sigrid Fleay with children Rosemary, Robert and Stephen, and Jack Daly in hat, at Mt King William, Tasmania 1945–46

Rosemary Fleay looking over Collingwood Range and Valley with Raglan Ranges in the distance, January 1946. A thylacine had been sighted crossing the West Coast Road near this spot in September 1945

Finding the first footprints of a track on Poverty Plain; inset, plaster cast of the left front foot of the thylacine

Left to right reads as follows: Don Davie, David Fleay and Roy Alderson with ‘Nigger’ the pack horse. Mt Gell in the distance

 

Chapter 10: Lure of the Weld — The Covert Truth

A thylacine skull: note the clearly displayed dentition and the reinforced upper jaw bone (zygomatic arch) so necessary in aiding the excessively wide gape needed to crush the head and neck of its prey

 

Chapter 11: Arrival of the Movie Makers

Ernie Bond: friend of the bushwalkers. This larger than life Tasmanian bushman was certain that the Tasmanian tiger lurked near his home in the Vale of Rasselas 160

Gordon Vale homestead, c. 1938, situated in the Vale of Rasselas, southwestern Tasmania; the wilderness home of noted bushman, Ernie Bond 161

 

Chapter 17: Lure of the Wilderness

Prints in the sand near Modder River, West Coast, April 2005: smaller Tasmanian devil prints alongside what I believe to be Tasmanian tiger tracks on an isolated West Coast beach at Varna Bay