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The Rock looms closer.
Almost there.
Important business !
Please excuse the reflections in the
window and the sloping horizon.
The hazards of mobile photography !
A wild camel. The first camel arrived in
Australia in 1840.
He was named Harry and met an untimely end after causing
the death of his owner. Harry bumped
John Horrocks as he
was loading his rifle, causing him to blow off some of his
fingers and most of his teeth. Horrocks died of gangrene
about a month later, but not before insisting that Harry
should be executed for his crime.
The
Bourke and Wills expedition used 24 imported camels and
over the next 50 or so years, thousands more were brought in.
Camels were originally used in Australia to open up the outback
for projects such as laying the telegraph line and railway tracks.
The cameleers came mostly from Afghanistan, and it's from them
that the name of the Ghan is derived.
With the advent of motorised
transportation, camels were
no longer needed and so they were released into the wild.
We now have the world's largest feral camel population,
numbering possibly as many as a million and accounting for
about 90% of the worldwide total.
Read lots of interesting Aussie
camel facts
here.
The road encircles Uluru and the next few
shots were taken
from the coach as we followed that road.
The many faces of Uluru.
Finally making our approach to the visitors' centre.
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