There were no warning signs. No reason to be concerned. And that is why signs on Fraser Island will not work. That is why restricting the numbers of dingoes will not work. And fences will not work.
Dingoes have to be viewed as crocodiles are in the Northern Territory, as lions are in Africa.
They are predators and they will prey on the weakest. Either they leave Fraser Island or the tourists do. I don't know anything of the environmental repercussions of ridding the island of the dingoes, but I vote for them to go, and I won't camp there until they do. Steve Perkin is a former Age journalist. The Age Company Ltd 2001.