Night time driving between Devils Garden State Forest and Mokepilly Bridge 9km from Halls Gap. A silky black animal off to the right side of the road a little bigger than a large dog illuminated in the high beam headlights sat up turned and ran into roadside ferns. Moved like a cat not a dog. Feral cats can grow to dog size. This appeared bigger than any dog.

Perhaps it was the touted Grampian puma claimed to have been occasionally seen since the nineteen fifties. The story is, World War Two American soldiers released puma mascots into the wild after a stay in the Grampian National Park The big cats and then their offspring surviving and hunting in the mountainous thick bushland. I wasn't stopping for a further look. Who knows if any truth to it?