GPSGuided wrote:Sounds like there's a real dingo problem there on the island. Is the authorities doing anything about it?
The dingos have been there for ever, and due to isolation are the purest strain of dingo in Australia.
Generally the problems have arisen from visitors feeding them, or leaving food and food scraps in the camps. This has emboldened the animals to approach people and camps looking for food, snd they have become increasingly aggressive about it.
Most of the official response is to educate visitors, and occasionally to remove troublesome animals.
I've had small packs of aggressive animals approach me in camp, and it was difficult to drive them off. My tent was also ripped open while unattended, even though there was no food inside.
As I recall in the most recent incident a person jogging solo on the beach was surrounded and attacked, and may have been seriously injured if a vehicle had not arrived.
If you have small children it would be most unwise to leave them unwatched. If you don't have the protection of a vehicle don't take them.