Shirley Wong

The longest fence in the world begins just a few hours north of Brisbane on the outskirts of a small town called Jindawi.

Jindawi has a hardware store, an accountant's office, a butcher shop, a beauty salon, and a small hotel on top of a pub.

Oh, I've got a meat tray raffle.

I love those.

But I wasn't here to win a meat tray.

I came to Jindawi to meet Doug Henning.

He's a former tourism officer who agreed to give me a tour of the fence his town is famous for.

Hi, so nice to meet you.

Amazing.

I met up with Doug outside the Jindawi Cultural Centre right in the middle of town.

And he was standing next to an almost seven foot tall sculpture of a dog.

This metallic hound is a dingo, an animal that can only be found on the island continent of Australia.

Given this giant, prominent statue, you might think that the people of Jindawi worshipped the mighty dingo.

But Doug informed me this is very much not the case.

So there's not a lot of dingo fans in town?

In fact, Jindawi's famous fence was built to keep dingoes out.

At over 5,000 kilometers, the Dingo Barrier Fence is longer than the distance between San Francisco and New York City.

And in a field just outside of Jindawi is where the fence starts.

To be honest, it's not much to look at.

Just a regular wire fence that's about six feet tall to prevent dingoes from jumping over.