It has been a very funny day today weatherwise. Poured with rain early this morning, then sunshine, more rain, more sunshine. It has gone on like this all day. Now the sun is shining again and it is very humid and warm.
I took this photo last weekend at Birubi beach. Two of the camels decided to have a rest in between ferrying tourists over the sand dunes to the beach.
Aww, the one on the right is all tuckered out, bless him/her. I have ridden a camel in the Sahara, I found them quite bumpy... and they seemed to fart a lot, lol. Lovely capture Babs, fave.
For me this is not a happy image - far from it.. the poor animal on the right looks exhausted.. no animal should be used so badly that they end up in this condition.. the other one isn't too happy either..
@jorlam Trust me this scene isn't as bad as you think it is. The camels are very well looked after and are not mistreated in any way.
Camels in the wild can walk up to 160 km a day and in camel trains usually walk around 30-40 km a day. These camels don't travel any where near those distances. In fact there are 9 camels in this train and not all of them go out on each trip. Each ride lasts 20 minutes over the dunes and down to the beach and back. The tours operate between 10 am and 4 pm only at weekends and they probably only do two trips an hour. Not all the camels go out each time. The only ones who do every trip are the handlers so maybe you should feel more sorry for them.
A friend of mine is a vet and he checks out the camels and the horses at Oakfield Ranch on a regular basis.
We have over 600,000 feral camels wandering around the centre of Australia and they are in a terrible condition. They are the camels I feel sorry for because nobody cares for them.
@pcoulson He was bored I think. They had only been out for two twenty minute rides at this stage and the one on the right was to be left out of the next ride. Each ride there are one or two left behind and they rotate the camels each time.
Camels in the wild can walk up to 160 km a day and in camel trains usually walk around 30-40 km a day. These camels don't travel any where near those distances. In fact there are 9 camels in this train and not all of them go out on each trip. Each ride lasts 20 minutes over the dunes and down to the beach and back. The tours operate between 10 am and 4 pm only at weekends and they probably only do two trips an hour. Not all the camels go out each time. The only ones who do every trip are the handlers so maybe you should feel more sorry for them.
A friend of mine is a vet and he checks out the camels and the horses at Oakfield Ranch on a regular basis.
We have over 600,000 feral camels wandering around the centre of Australia and they are in a terrible condition. They are the camels I feel sorry for because nobody cares for them.