My world walk blog Australia 55 - Dingo

Dingo

I arrived in a small town called Dingo, population about 300. The dingo is a direct descendant of the Asian pariah dog. This animal has been indigenous to the Australian mainland for almost ten thousand years and is the countries  only carnivorous predator.  

The dingo is synonymous with australian folklore, legend and myth. It's prevalence in the area during the early settlement years caused the town to be so named after pioneer Moses Wafer who camped in the area and named the town after the wild dogs he heard howling in the middle of the night.