In fairness there is a disclaimer about the cat looking nothing like a real big cat,which begs the question why feature it on a podcast about……Big cats?And when the guy said I was flicking through pics of deer and that image popped up I nearly spat my muesli out.
Sadly your right,the south of Ireland was always a conduit for illegals to get into the UK,it was known as the Surinder Singh route,now people get to the south of Ireland and stay welcomed by the government,beginning of the end.
I had hundreds of salmon out of that river,and shedloads of sea-trout,used to love warm evenings on the bank listening to the fish jumping.I heard sunlun had a freshwater pond at silkie.
The north east never used to have a freshwater fishing tradition when I was a kid,trout,salmon and seafishing yes,but coarse no,I had never even caught a pike till I moved south,Sunderland has a coarse pond now.
It's a genuine question what has 120+ combined years of research by Britain's top 3 big cat investigators actually produced, no undermining their "reputation" just where is the evidence?
Britain's leading top of the tree big cat go-to experts whenever the papers want a cat story are
Minter
Tunbridge
McGowan
Minter studied british cats for 21 years
McGowan 39 years
Tunbridge over 60 years
That's 120 years, what or where is the combined evidence of the three leading lights in the hunt for british big cats?
Go to Myanmar,then you have the options of Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam if you need a little variety. Philippines your locked in to be honest, but if your set on going gimme a shout and I will give you a few suggestions of decent beaches.
That throws up a host of questions, why did the DNA lab want anonymity? Did dragonfly who had a new documentary to promote collect the hair themselves? I can think of quite a few more Q's.
Your not going to get as many tourists in the Philippines as say Thailand because it's a fragmented archipelago and a bit dangerous in parts, also not as geared up to tourism as Thailand and pinoy food is pretty crap. Try Myanmar or Indonesia maybe?