...then there's the rabbits !
>
> 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
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> www.soultheft.com
> Publisher: The SLR Compendium - http://www.blurb.com/books/3732813
>
>
>
> On 15/01/2013, at 8:16 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
>
> > Where did the camels come from? Some entrepreneur with an eye to the
> main chance, perhaps?
>
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