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Fly Ted Down Under Journeys through the land of Oz

Broome & Cable Beach

The camels about to set off for home.

AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 5 June 2011 | Views [297]

The camels about to set off for home.

Camels couched on Cable Beach at the end of another long day of touring. Camels were introduced to the beach a few years ago by enterprising tour operators, and now there are a few different outfits offering camel-back rides up and down the beach. They are a spectacle in themselves at the beginning and end of the day, when trains of a dozen camels are paraded off the beach and down the highway, back to their camel stable.

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Weaving their way through the rocks on Cable Beach. I stayed at Cable Beach Backpackers for a week; one day another guy in the room came in and announced he had a new job as a camel tender, helping to lead them on their walks. The room took on a pungent odour from then on.

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