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Aerial view of Thargomindah, c 1964

Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

Thargomindah, a small town in South West Queensland, was one of the first towns in Australia to produce hydroelectric power from 1898 until 1951.

But this wasn’t Thargomindah’s only claim to fame…

THARGOMINDAH WAITING ON CAMERA SHOT OF ITS “BUNYIP”

A century ago primitive Australian aborigines believed in a “bunyip”: To-day in Thargomindah, 730 miles west of Brisbane, some twentieth-century townspeople, belive in a local specimen. Meanwhile, results from an attempt to photograph the “bunyip” are eagerly awaited.

Aborigines thought of a “bunyip” as a creature “as big as a bullock, with an emu’s head and neck, a horse’s mane and tail, a seal’s flippers, which laid turtle’s eggs in a platypus’ nest, and ate blackfellows when it was tired of a crayfish diet.”

Thargomindah has described its “bunyip” as “a seal,” “a turtle,” “a sea lion,” “a musk duck,” and a “swimming pig.”

Twenty people think they have

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