Lost Nessie Spotted off Magnetic Island

Lost Nessie Spotted off Magnetic Island   

Magnetic Island is abuzz after a strange, monster-like object suddenly appeared out of waters off Picnic Bay on the weekend.


The spectacle had visitors and locals scratching their heads, with theories ranging from large birds to sunken boats.
Magnetic Island resident David “Crusty” Herron, who took this photo, said he was glad to capture the animal or object on film, and had started calling it Lost Nessie.
“I looked out and saw this thing in the water and thought,.. it’s a Loch Ness monster’,” he said.
“There was this feeling of excitement on the beach, and all these people were pointing and talking about what it could be.
“Someone said it looked like the Loch Ness monster, and said maybe Scotland had been too cold lately so it decided to come and visit Maggie.”


The most likely explanation is that the low tide revealed part of a sunken boat, with reports a dragon boat went down off the island one week ago during a race.
Regardless, Mr Herron said that the sighting could be an asset to tourism, and attract more visitors to the island.
Anyone with explanations are being urged to come forward.

http://theviralpost.com/lost-nessie-spotted-off-magnetic-island/

[We have run reports on Dragon boats before: That is NOT what a Dragon boat looks like!!]

Dale, Greetings from Magnetic island,

 

Dale please find attached my original photograph 'Loch Ness Nessie on Magnetic Island', attached, taken on Friday 25th October off Picnic Bay Beach on Magnetic Island.

Regrettably the camera was a $49 Samasung ES80 with an incorrect setting.

 

I give you permission to use the image with the Attribution: Is this a Loch Ness Monster, Magnetic Island, Queensland. David Crusty Herron.

 

on both your blog and your post http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com.au/2013/10/loch-ness-monster-emerges-at-magnetic.html and any other site to which you may contribute providing attribution is made as above.

 

Thanks Dale

 

Crusty

David Crusty Herron
........
Magnetic Island
AUSTRALIA

Check out my blog...
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Special thanks go to Dave "Crusty" Herron!

Loch Ness Monster Emerges at Magnetic Island, North Queensland, Claim Beachgoers

http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/517665/20131029/loch-ness-monster-nessie-lake.htm#.Um_yUdzD-1v

Loch Ness Monster Emerges at Magnetic Island, North Queensland, Claim Beachgoers

By Athena Yenko | October 29, 2013 10:52 AM EST

On Oct 25, beachgoers at Magnetic Island, off Townsville, claimed that they saw "a distinctive long, curved neck bobbing up and down off the coast," AAP reports.
The beachgoers were quick to associate the image they saw to the mythical creature Loch Ness monster or most popularly called Nessie
Locals of the Magnetic Island were now desperate to find answer or a name to the image that they saw.
"It was bobbing up and down in the water and at first I thought, what's that? Someone yelled out 'it looks like a Loch Ness monster. I've never seen anything like it - it could be anything. We are all wanting to know what it is," David Herron, a marriage celebrant told AAP.
Mr Herron was able to photograph the "monster" from a 200 metres distance.
However, marine biologists who have seen the photograph taken by Mr Herron said that the object bobbing up and down off the coast could be a piece of a tree or boat.

Glen Chilton, James Cook University biology professor, echoed what the marine biologists said. "It's probably a piece of a tree or piece of a boat which has somehow broken away," he told AAP.

But Australian cryptozoologist and self-proclaimed "yowie man" Rex Gilroy took the locals' side saying that "it's hard to say from the photo" whether the image seen was just that of a piece of tree or a part of a boat.
Mr Gilroy said that he had known 800 sightings of creatures resembling the Loch Ness monster. Some of these sightings were from the Magnetic Island and Townsville area. In fact, in Oct 2012, a local fisherman saw a grey coloured creature emerging from waters off the Magnetic Island.

The mystery about the Loch Ness monster, Nessie, had been being told over and again for 80 years now.
The story started as far back on Apr 14, 1933, when a couple - John Mackay and his wife - saw something strange as they drove past the Loch Ness Lake in Scottish Highlands. According to accounts, the couple described what they saw as something resembling a whale.
The story of Mr and Mrs Mackay had since then gave birth to more sightings of the Loch Ness monster. To date, there is still no concrete evidence to support the sightings.

Scientists even consider the mystery of the Loch Ness monster as a myth and hoax to drive tourism to the lake.


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The descriptions bring to mind the classic Longneck's arching-over fishing posture. The logo for the Champ Search echoes that shape and so also does a recent photograph said to be Champ showing his neck in a similar posture, This photo is also hotly disputed, however--DD]