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From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:17:29 +0000
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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