Campers spend night fending off dingoes after K’gari (formerly Fraser Island) attack

K’gari campers including children spent the night constantly fending off dingoes just metres from where a young woman was viciously mauled hours earlier. WATCH VIDEO

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K’gari campers including children spent Monday night fending off dingoes “every 10 minutes” just metres from where a young woman was viciously mauled.

Campers at Orchid Beach were forced to use orange poles as makeshift dingo sticks to ward off the wild dogs who were prowling between campgrounds.

It comes as 23-year-old Brisbane woman Sarah Peet remains in hospital after being set upon while jogging along the beach.

Holiday-maker Andrew James was part of a 20-strong group staying at K’gari from the Central Coast.

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Dingo at the Waddy Point camping ground on Fraser Island. Photo: Glenn Hampson

Mr James and his family, including a mother with a newborn, were camped at Waddy Point, near to where the pack “dominates”.

The group had a sleepless night on Monday as the dingoes repeatedly crept into their camp, searching for food scraps.

Dingoes near Waddy Point. Picture: File photo

“Every 10 minutes they were coming at us, we spent four hours with them coming in,” Mr James said on Tuesday.

“We had them within four metres of us yesterday and today, they’re not overly worried about humans.”

Mr James said the parks and wildlife rangers spent much of Monday and Tuesday educating and warning campers of the dangers.

He described the group of men who stepped in to stop Monday’s attack as heroes and said the Brisbane woman was lucky to be alive.

Sarah Peet being transported to Hervey Bay Hospital after a dingo attack on K'Gari. Picture: Seven News Brisbane

Mr James said the men had risked injury or worse to help the woman.

“They put her in the back of the ute and were doing reverse doughnuts (in the ute) actually trying to get it away,” he said.

“She was in the back of the ute with one fella trying to look after her as well as fend the dingoes away.

“They told us the dingoes were jumping into the tailgate trying to get at her. She was very fortunate.”

Late on Tuesday afternoon, park rangers were seen moving a dingo, believed to be the “alpha” dog responsible for Monday’s attack, away from fishermen north of Orchid Beach.

The dingo, complete with its tracking collar, had crept up towards a fisherman, within metres of him before the ranger intervened.

The ranger was captured on camera slapping a stick on sand to lure the dingo away into the dunes.

It comes as authorities weigh up whether the dingoes involved must be euthanised or not.

“We are in their backyard, so you have to respect them,” Mr James said.

Originally published as Campers spend night fending off dingoes after K’gari (formerly Fraser Island) attack