Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
6.15am-12.30pm & 1.30-4pm)
Ferry departure point
River Heads Information Kiosk
(
07-4125 8485;
at River Heads, south of Hervey Bay.
DEALING WITH DINGOES
Despite its many natural attractions and opportunities for adventure, there's nothing on Fraser Island that gives a
thrill comparable to your first glimpse of a dingo. Believed to be among the most genetically pure in the world,
the dingoes of Fraser are sleek, spry and utterly beautiful. They're also wild beasts that can become aggressive at
the drop of a hat (or a strong-smelling foodsack), and while attacks are rare, there are precautions that must be
taken by every visitor to the island:
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However skinny they appear, or whatever woebegone look they give you, never feed dingoes. Dingoes that are
human-fed quickly lose their shyness and can become combative and competitive. Feeding dingoes is illegal and
carries heavy fines.
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Don't leave any food scraps lying around, and don't take food to the lakes: eating on the shore puts your food at
'dingo level', an easy target for scroungy scavengers.
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Stay in groups, and keep any children within arm's reach at all times.
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Teasing dingoes is not only cruel, but dangerous. Leave them alone, and they'll do same.
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Dingoes are best observed at a distance. Pack a zoom lens and practice some shush, and you'll come away with
some brilliant photographs…and all your limbs intact.
Getting There & Away
AIR
Air Fraser Island
( 07-4125 3600;
www.airfraserisland.com.au
)
charges from $135 for a return flight
(30-minute round trip) to the island's eastern beach, departing Hervey Bay airport.
BOAT
Vehicle ferries connect Fraser Island with River Heads, about 10km south of Hervey Bay,
or further south at Inskip Point, near Rainbow Beach.
Fraser Island Barges
( 07-4194 9300, 1800 227 437;
www.fraserislandferry.com.au
)
makes the crossing
(vehicle and four passengers $160 return, 30 minutes) from River Heads to Wanggoolba
Creek on the western coast of Fraser Island. It departs daily from River Heads at 8.30am,
10.15am and 4pm, and returns from the island at 9am, 3pm and 5pm.
Kingfisher Bay Ferry
( 07-4194 9300, 1800 227 437;
www.fraserislandferry.com
)
operates a daily
vehicle and passenger ferry (pedestrian adult/child return $50/25, vehicle and four passen-
gers return $160, 50 minutes) from River Heads to Kingfisher Bay, departing at 6.45am,
9am, 12.30pm, 3.30pm, 6.45pm and 9.30pm (Friday and Saturday only) and returning at
7.50am, 10.30am, 2pm, 5pm, 8.30pm and 11pm (Friday and Saturday only).
