Oopphh I was there years ago (was still called Fraser Island at the time) and before they let you take the jeep there was an afternoon watching videos on safety and the Dingo danger was stressed. I was sleeping at night and my foot went against the tent and a dingo woke me up nosing it through the tent. Hopefully it was something quick and they were just scavenging.
Poor girl/family/travelling companions.
Was my favourite place I visited in Australia.
maxgrody on
Save the dingoes
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exotics on
Very sad. My hunch would be she drowned or something else killed her and the dingos found her.
The reason I feel this way, rather than that they attacked her on the beach, is that she would have screamed or gone back into the water. I am not certain dingos would hunt a swimming person so the water would be a safe place to go.
Sympathy to her family
Blackjaquesshelaque on
Shitty thing to happen to anyone. RIP
Equivalent_Sea_1895 on
Dingos gotta dingo.
RM_r_us on
I hope for her sake she was unconscious or already deceased. Eaten alive would be one of the worst ways to go.
chonklord9000 on
Just gonna have to own my ignorance here, but I had absolutely no idea dingeos were dogs. Admittedly I just pictured them kind of looking like a koala…
Nevertheless, an awfully tragic story. Condolences to her loved ones.
BRAVO9ACTUAL on
They can’t confirm if she drowned, or if it was the dingos that did it…
Been there. Amazing place. But going for a swim there at 5am by yourself is a very dangerous choice.
Loweffort2025 on
Dingos ate my tourist.
aurelorba on
Still better than crossing the US border.
TheHedonyeast on
Box Jellyfish maybe? But either way: Dingo attack, or paralysis drowning that’s a bad way to go.
hopefully at least this serves as a reminder for people to be safe moving forward. Solo Swims at 5am, on unpatrolled beaches in a place known for dingo agression, strong currents, and during the height of box jellyfish season is an easy thing for us to point out as bad decision-making from here in Canada but thats because we have the luxury of Wikipedia and a lack of complacency in the area. Its so easy to forget about risks especially ones that change with the seasons when one has been there for weeks at a time already without complication.
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No one say it
Maybe the dingo ate your baby?
1980 all over again.
Oopphh I was there years ago (was still called Fraser Island at the time) and before they let you take the jeep there was an afternoon watching videos on safety and the Dingo danger was stressed. I was sleeping at night and my foot went against the tent and a dingo woke me up nosing it through the tent. Hopefully it was something quick and they were just scavenging.
Poor girl/family/travelling companions.
Was my favourite place I visited in Australia.
Save the dingoes
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Very sad. My hunch would be she drowned or something else killed her and the dingos found her.
The reason I feel this way, rather than that they attacked her on the beach, is that she would have screamed or gone back into the water. I am not certain dingos would hunt a swimming person so the water would be a safe place to go.
Sympathy to her family
Shitty thing to happen to anyone. RIP
Dingos gotta dingo.
I hope for her sake she was unconscious or already deceased. Eaten alive would be one of the worst ways to go.
Just gonna have to own my ignorance here, but I had absolutely no idea dingeos were dogs. Admittedly I just pictured them kind of looking like a koala…
Nevertheless, an awfully tragic story. Condolences to her loved ones.
They can’t confirm if she drowned, or if it was the dingos that did it…
Not a good way to go. Condolences to her family.
Dingo at my baby!
A dingo ate a canuck!
Box Jellyfish is my bet 🪼
A dingo ate my Canadian
so it’s the safe the say a dingo ate her baby
RIP. And what a terrible low empathy society we live in, that half the comments are cracking jokes. The 1980s “dingo ate my baby” incident was a horrible tragedy compounded by the fact that the poor mother involved became an international punchline. This, too, is a horrible tragedy where friends and family are surely grieving very deeply right now. Before you decide to make an extremely cliché joke, take one nanosecond to remember the humanity in stories like these.Â
Been there. Amazing place. But going for a swim there at 5am by yourself is a very dangerous choice.
Dingos ate my tourist.
Still better than crossing the US border.
Box Jellyfish maybe? But either way: Dingo attack, or paralysis drowning that’s a bad way to go.
hopefully at least this serves as a reminder for people to be safe moving forward. Solo Swims at 5am, on unpatrolled beaches in a place known for dingo agression, strong currents, and during the height of box jellyfish season is an easy thing for us to point out as bad decision-making from here in Canada but thats because we have the luxury of Wikipedia and a lack of complacency in the area. Its so easy to forget about risks especially ones that change with the seasons when one has been there for weeks at a time already without complication.
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