Fraser Island: Location of Ash & I's knock-down, drag-out of the trip. Advised to "fight aggressively" when attacked, we took that advice to heart, ripped each other to shreds, after she revealed that she totally didn't like me, was unsure of why she was even friends with me, resented me for coming and stealing all her holiday time from work and then called me a dork....
Ha. Fraser Island is actually one of the few locations in Australia where dingos have not inbred with other dogs - they are pure-bred, wild dogs. Unsupervised children have been mauled by dingos, and the animal is one of several species of non-humans that make Australia one of the most dangerous places to live....other species include snakes, jellyfish, plants and bugs. Basically, anyplace you step and are not instantly killed, you're lucky to have lived another day in Australia. Just kidding...sort of.
Anyway, all the literature Ash and I read about Fraser Island, and the info video our 4WD tour group had to watch before we left included lots of advice for how to fend off dingos: At first, when noticing the offending dingo, do not move. However, if attacked, fight agressively. We kept seeing that phrase everywhere and applying it to other life situations: when unwantingly attacked by offending sex at the bar, fight aggressivly. When someone steals the only clean water cup right from under your fingertips, fight aggressivly. When faced with a felled forest in the middle of the only road to the only location on the island you want to see, fight aggressively, with an ax...
perhaps that's my new life motto.....
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