Journalists around the world have turned their attention to the city of Townsville, located in the northeastern part of the Australian state of Queensland, due to reports of the appearance of a strange object.
According to The Australian, on October 25, 2013, vacationers on the Townsville beach noticed a curved object protruding above the water's surface.
Some of the eyewitnesses immediately noticed the similarity of the strange object with the legendary Scottish monster Nessie.
“We saw, 200 meters from the shore, the outlines of a creature with one interesting feature - it had a long, curved neck. It seemed to float, bouncing up and down on the water, recalls David Herron, who photographed the mysterious object. - And before I wondered what it was, someone shouted about the resemblance to the Loch Ness monster. I, like the rest of the witnesses of the appearance of the sea creature, have never seen anything like it, so we want to know what it was. But apparently we were watching a sea monster."
However, marine biologists who studied the photographs of the vacationers did not see anything supernatural on them. They concluded that the "curved neck" was a piece of wood or a piece of a boat.
“It’s hardly a strange underwater animal,” said biology professor Glen Chilton from James Cook University ironically. “It’s probably just floating debris - a part of a boat or a branch that seemed like a living creature from afar.”
Australian cryptozoologist Rex Gilroy, who did not support local residents, also became interested in photographs of the mysterious object, saying that it is difficult to identify a strange object from the pictures. According to the cryptozoologist, who is the author of books about mythical creatures, he knows about 800 cases of observations of strange reptiles with long necks and a "ball-shaped" skull shape.
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“Some of them have been spotted near Townsville. For example, last October, a fisherman saw a huge creature - his gray body protruded from the water. But in this case, it is most likely part of a recently sunken boat,”added Rex Gilroy.