‘Gympie Ape’ statue found in paddock baffles museum visitors 60 years on

“Where’s the ape statue?”

It’s a question museum staff at Gympie, two hours north of Brisbane, have been answering for decades.

The rock, which has a head carved in the shape of an ape, sits in a small timber and glass cabinet in the museum’s souvenirs gallery.

But Gympie Gold Mining and Historical…