That is interesting; if only they could be used in their great numbers.
Perhaps, with climate change, their uses will be more appropriate.
Anyway, welcome back Barbagrigia :-)
Chris
On 15 Jan 2013, at 10:09, Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Interesting story. T lay the telegraph line across the desert from north to
> south, in the later 1800's, they brought in Afghans with camel teams. It's
> when Alice Springs was founded as a supply station. When the job was
> finished, the Afghans were promptly sent packing back home with wages and a
> pat on the back, but they just turned the camels loose. Now there's over a
> million of the feral buggers out there and they keep trashing small desert
> towns looking for food in dry times.
> The north-south train, Adelaide to Darwin, is called The Ghan after them -
> one of the more interesting train rides in the world.
> The camels are such pure stock that occasionally they are captured and
> exported live back to Saudi as breeding stock. Some people have tried setting
> up meat export to the Middle East but that's fraught with difficulty (halal
> slaughtering in remote areas, for instance). Camel meat isn't bad either - a
> bit like gamey beef but not as tough as water buffalo (another pest we did
> get on top of)..
> Andrew Fildes
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