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Authorities are investigating after a young girl was attacked by a dingo known to have a history of “threatening behavior” at a popular holiday destination.
A place of raw beauty and spectacular beaches that go on forever, Fraser is also home to deadly funnel-web spiders that stream out of their silk-lined burrows in their thousands on sunset to begin their bizarre mating rituals.
Several camping zones in K'gari (formerly known as Fraser Island) have been temporarily closed due to "increased threatening dingo activity".
Queensland's Department of Environment and Science issued an alert on Friday announcing the immediate closure of multiple camping sites after two women were attacked by dingoes.
A group of 20 campers have spent a sleepless night fending off a pack of dingoes on a K'gari campsite near the beach a woman was viciously mauled while jogging just hours earlier.