A remarkable structure that stretches across Australia’s Southern Region is the Dingo Fence.
Built in the 1880s, the fence is designed to keep the dingo, Australia’s native dog, out of the south-eastern part of Australia, and protect sheep in Queensland.
Today you won’t find too many pure bred dingoes in Australia, but there are still plenty of wild dogs.
The fence is the longest in the world stretching a whopping 5,600 kilometres from the Darling Downs in Queensland to the Great Australian Bight in South Australia.
On our journey into the outback we have passed through the fence on a couple of occasions, and we have gate boy, TomO, to open and close the gate…
That is some fence!
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Sure is…
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Sounds like its been a bit more successful than the rabbit proof fence then? 🙂
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Perhaps!
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Yet another creature for me to be fearful of in the land of Oz! Between your apartment-sized spiders and those crazy dingoes I may never muster up the courage! 🙂
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Strewth, and that is just for starters! 😉
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GAH!! More?? What else do you guys have cookin’ up there???
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Wow – we had no idea!!! We really need to see more of Australia and it’s outback 🙂
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Great place to visit… 🙂
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Does it do the job?
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Yes,generally I believe it does…
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Good to know.
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