Yowie Bay is on the Port Hacking estuary (left) in southern Sydney. Many of the waterside homes feature boat ramps (right). Curiously, there is no definitive explanation for how this bay and the suburb were named. Yowie or Ewey is an Aboriginal name that means 'place of echoes'. In the early days the area was known as 'Ewey Bay' and it has been suggested this was a corruption of ewes, which are female sheep. A Yowie is also a mythological Australian bush creature and a creature from Aboriginal folklore but there doesn't seem to be a connection to either of those.
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