We visited the pleasant little town of Nannup (about 260 km from Perth) sometime ago.
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| Artwork depicting the woodworking heritage of the town of Nannup |
Known largely as a timber milling and processing town, Nannup is also famous for sightings of the Nannup Tiger from the earliest days of European settlement.
The Nannup Tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus) is more famously known as the Tasmanian Tiger, that island state being where the last known one was captured in 1933.
A video from YouTube shows this last known tiger.
In Nannup itself, there are wooden sculptures celebrating the Tiger, the largest known carnivorous marsupial.
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| Two views of the Nannup Tiger monument |
Also scattered around town, amidst shrubbery in the roadside gardens are more wooden sculptures celebrating this animal.
To this day, there are people who still claim to have caught sight of this creature and that these tigers there are still around, despite them being declared extinct in 1936.
An acquaintance I meet at the local dog park swears she saw one when living in Tasmania.
Finally, about a month ago, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation published more videos recently discovered of the last known tiger.
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