Dingo attack on Fraser

[oldmate]

They need to update that with carbon tax hahhaha

[chisel]

I also often go down to the beach fishing at night on Fraser.  Dingoes are often there but typically only 1 or 2.  I haven't felt physically threatened and was surprised to learn a single, adult man was savagely attacked.

Does this imply that we must *never* be alone on Fraser now?  What has changed to make it dangerous now?
Do we need a friend/partner to come with us when we wander 20m from the tent in the middle of the night to take a leak?
Do we need someone to come fishing with us at 5am/first light?
Maybe we should ban all camping in unfenced areas?

[Steffo1]

Who's up for a wander & late night fish on their own in Kruger National Park?

[Bird]

... and was surprised to learn a single, adult man was savagely attacked.

Really?
Wild dogs are just that.

Does this imply that we must *never* be alone on Fraser now?  What has changed to make it dangerous now?
Do we need a friend/partner to come with us when we wander 20m from the tent in the middle of the night to take a leak?
Do we need someone to come fishing with us at 5am/first light?

What makes it dangerous is ****wits feeding dingo's like they are pet poodles.
The dogs are becoming more and more 'adventureous' with campers/campsites and expecting a feed.. To them a person/kid/adult/poodle on their own is a standing up rump steak.

[oldmate]

Really?
Wild dogs are just that.
What makes it dangerous is ****wits feeding dingo's like they are pet poodles.
The dogs are becoming more and more 'adventureous' with campers/campsites and expecting a feed.. To them a person/kid/adult/poodle on their own is a standing up rump steak.

Thanks Bird!

Nothing has changed, they always were wild animals and always will be.
If you walk up to an elephant in africa, chances are it will charge and stomp the living daylights out of you. Just cause you patted one at the zoo makes no difference to what they are..

These dingos are hunters and scavengers, and will take the easist thing they see, whether it is the sausage roll the german backpackers give them or some guy by himself.

Its nature

Who's up for a wander & late night fish on their own in Kruger National Park?

1,2 dingos coming for you, 3,4 better lock your door 

[Bird]

1,2 dingos coming for you, 3,4 better lock your door 

5,6 Shittin brix.. 7,8 your the bait..

[discoteddy]

We've been taking the kids to Fraser since they were 18 months old, never had a drama and have seen plenty of dingos. We've walked along the beach and walked some of the lengthy walks to the interior lakes at differing times.

For us the main thing is educating the kids, in sense skilling them with some " actions on" if they are threatened. For me as the dad/husband and fine leader of our clan (ouch dear) it's about being situationally aware, always carry a decent walking stick near the lakes or when fishing the butt section of an old cork handled shimano beach rod is also a pretty satisfactory deterrent.

We just love the place.


Cheers,

Disco teddy.

[Beachman]

I use to do a lot of night fishing at Fraser and 99% of the time the Dingo’s never bothered me. Due to lack of space we use to sleep on the sand under a tarp and it wasn’t uncommon for the dingo’s to come into camp and lick you while sleeping (They could smell and taste the bait and fish)
In saying that I always kept a rod holder next to me just in case, but never once felt threated. If anything they were like playful dogs.
But one trip we went during breading season and I’m not ashamed to admit I was very concerned with the dingoes. Reason is once night fell, I could hear quite a few dingoes’ circling us in the bushes as well as them growling and fighting each other. Luckily that night we were in a tent and I made sure I kept a lump of wood and a knife next to the bed.
Each time we visit Fraser, I see tourists feeding them on a daily basis and that’s there the problem is as they are becoming reliant on us for food. 

[oldmate]

5,6 ****tin brix.. 7,8 your the bait..

9,10 never fishin again!!!!

[Rumpig]

1,2 dingos coming for you, 3,4 better lock your door 

5,6 ****tin brix.. 7,8 your the bait..

9,10 never fishin again!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWOvbDS5lv4

[Clouty]

9,10 never fishin again!!!!

PMSL
 

[edz]

Fixed ya problem for ya " safe as now unless the bastards learn to fly "..

[oldmate]

Fixed ya problem for ya " safe as now unless the bastards learn to fly "..

Pmsl. Yep that's stuff em hahahaha
Just don't sleep, they will get you in your dreams. Lol

[Isuzumu]

Do the Dingos at Fraser Is howl (singing my darling says)? Up at Mitchell Falls (Kimberleys) last year they just went off from probably 2K away to bloody 10 meters, they got into a cannister with dehydrated food and they were fat looking dogs. We were sleeping on stretchers under the awning on the D.Max, luckly it started to rain so I got in the truck, got called a wimp by my darling, but said I want to keep all my toes 

[edz]

Years back before Dundaburra camp ground was fenced, we were seranaded most early mornings by a couple of vocal locals, over a few years of camping up there  .... you would get them brushing the sides of the tents at night too but never had any troubles .

[Jeepers Creepers]

Somebody will start bitching now.....

*So now I can't go to Fraser unless I have a travel lift and work for Energex.*

Seriously, this thread could nearly be in the electrical section soon.

[oldmate]

Somebody will start bitching now.....

*So now I can't go to Fraser unless I have a travel lift and work for Energex.*

Seriously, this thread could nearly be in the electrical section soon.

See even jeepers gets it 

[Jeepers Creepers]

A lady got choppered off the island today with suspected heart attack.

I bet a dingo gets the rap for that too.

[Rumpig]

A lady got choppered off the island today with suspected heart attack.

I bet a dingo gets the rap for that too.

i heard she bought a carton of beer at one of the bars, and when she heard the price from the bar tender the chest pain kicked in immediately

[oldmate]

i heard she bought a carton of beer at one of the bars, and when she heard the price from the bar tender the chest pain kicked in immediately

Must of been a tourist

[wartim]

Was at Fraser on the Anzac weekend with plenty of dingoes about as apparently start of breeding season.  What I noticed was there is so much scaremongering (for want of a better word) about the dingoes on Fraser (do you see the same at Alice Springs, not sure?) and so many 'Overseas Tourists' who really dont have a clue about the dangers?

I had a dingo walk up and really suss me out however would not come any closer than 5 mtrs them decided dont like this Bloke (even kids in the car said it was scared of me) only to walk 10 mtrs and right up behind a young Asian women who was sitting down on the beach.  She just cowled over rather than stand up which put the dingos head at her head height.  I watched horrified as the dingo shaped its mouth ready to nip at the back of her neck shoulder area, until I ran over and chased it away.

I am 100 % certain it was going to bite her and 100% certain that if she had stood up and faced the dingo as it was coming towards her it would have left her well alone. If this scene was in Africa and it was a lion, leopard or similar there is no way she would have let this wild animal get so close.

[gronk]

If this scene was in Africa and it was a lion, leopard or similar there is no way she would have let this wild animal get so close.

Wanna bet ??

Some of these asians are really not switched on at all....

[wartim]

Here you go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRSYMfC2PFU

[mrsedz]

Yep agree 110%. They are different now.
Unfortunately they have to kill this dog if they can find it (they are ear tagged, so it's possible if he saw the tag), as once it attacks a human it's a huge danger.
Totally different situation to croc habitats, that are naturally aggressive and will attack anything.

There is a lot of dingoes on Fraser Island with no tags on their ears. This is due to the changes made to the management of dingoes on Fraser Island. We we on Fraser late June, early July this year. I even asked the ranger about the large number of dingoes without ear tags.

[Petermac]

Shoot the lot of them. Why we would want to protect an introduced species is beyond me - if they were pigs we wouldn't be having this discussion. My wife won't go to Frazer for fear that the kids will be attacked by a Dingo; what's the point of having National Parks if people can't enjoy them? And the crocs argument is bollocks - endemic animals are part of the ecosystem and part of the attraction. These are glorified ferals.