Watch: Sharks and dingoes come face-to-face on K’gari

Stunning footage has been shared showing dingoes and sharks within metres of each other along the shore on K’gari. WATCH:

Tourists on K’gari have been treated to the spectacular sight of two of the island’s natural predators in close quarters, as several sharks swam near the shore while a pack of dingoes fought over fish frames nearby.

The incredible scenes were captured in a series of videos taken Kristie Trudgett and her partner Lindsay Boreham this week, who noticed the sharks at Waddy Point Beach, north of the Orchid Beach entrance, while driving by, and stopped to watch nature at its best.

Ms Trudgett said she and her partner had been to the island a few times, but it was the first time they had seen the combination of dingoes and sharks along the shoreline.

One brave juvenile dingo even ventured into the water, close to where the bull sharks and bronze whalers were coming in close to the shoreline.

She said the sighting of nine dingoes in the pack seemed to be proof of strong population numbers currently on the island.

On a Facebook page devoted to experiences on the island, Luke Draper had also shared a video in a nearby location showing a shark coming into the shallows.

The post, along with Ms Trudgett’s, attracted hundreds of reactions and comments.

In one of the comments, Steve McCallum said it was viewing nature as it should be, “sharks looking for a feed and dingoes eating the scraps of fish on the shore”.

The incredible scenes were captured in a series of videos taken Kristie Trudgett and her partner Lindsay Boreham this week, who noticed the sharks at Waddy Point Beach, north of the Orchid Beach entrance, while driving by and stopped to watch nature at its best.

Ms Trudgett said she had been told by locals that both predators were drawn to the smell of the buried fish frames.

She saw some of the dingoes fighting over the scraps while watching the events unfold.

At one point, one of the bronze sharks “charged directly towards land”, causing Ms Trudgett to draw back.

She said her partner had laughed, reminding her it wasn’t going to “grow legs” and come on land, but Ms Trudgett said the sharks had been shallow enough to touch the sand at some points.

She said it had been a real privilege to be able to observe nature at its most exciting while on the island.

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Originally published as Watch: Sharks and dingoes come face-to-face on K’gari