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Sunshine Television in co-production with The Image Connection and M.G.M. has realised a new outback adventure documentary - The Cameleers. The doco portraits some of the most celebrated characters in the Australian outback. Cameleers are a breed as hardy as the animals they ride. Travelling the outback they enjoy an extreme sport like no other. Braving drought and isolation, each year they head to the Camel Cup in Alice Springs for their own equivalent of the famous Melbourne Cup horse race. 'The Cameleers' shows that the true spirit of adventure is alive and well in central Australia.

FILMING THE OUTBACK

by ROBIN YABSLEY

PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY BY WIES BIALECKI

RINGER’S LUCK

Three young Ringers were stranded in the middle of the Sturt Stony Desert’s Birdsville Track. In a downpour of rain, which lasted two days, they made their way, in their hopeless 4WD, to Mungerannie Pub… and what luck, to end-up were dirty clothes, lots of grog, card playing and smoking are still all allowed!

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CAMELS IN AUSTRALIA

Cameleering in Australia has it's beginnings in the mid 1800's when the animals were first imported along with their Afghani handlers by pastoralists and explorers. One group was intent on inland expansion, the other ... on discovery and adventure. In the pioneering days there were many different types to meet a variety of outback needs, included light camels for riding, medium-weight pack animals and heavy Kandahar. Today's animal is a blend of all of them. They are only wild camels on earth, disease free and with no apparent predators their numbers have grown dramatically. The latest national parks authorities’ estimates are 600 thousands. They wander in a massive area of several million square kilometres in three states and the Northern Territory. They're ideally suited to the dry climate and bush plants provide a year round food source. Numbers are estimated to be doubling every six to 10 years. A camel meat industry is in its infancy, and continuing tradition, the cameleers are pioneers of another burgeoning business. Camel trekking in Central Australia is growing in popularity as more and more visitors discover one of the world's last frontiers. Camels selected for trekking are of docile temperament. They are all well ridden by experts before anyone inexperienced is allowed on their backs. If they have any hidden personality traits, these need to be discovered early on. Camels in Australia can live to be nearly 50 years old. Their long life span is one of the reasons their numbers in the wild are so prolific.

by MIKE GARDINER

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