Camels

Cable Beach: Baby camel born

One of the Cable Beach camels has had a baby.

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Sunday, October 16th, 2011 Broome, Business and finance Comments Off

Balgo: Missionaries meet local camel

Assemblies of God church pastors Brett and Justine Wiltshire met the local camel on Balgo’s outskirts.

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Saturday, October 15th, 2011 Aboriginal, People Comments Off

Balgo’s garbage-loving camel

Photo courtesy Kylee Birchall-Hunt

Photo courtesy Kylee Birchall-Hunt

Thanks to Kylee Birchall-Hunt for sending in this pic.

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Saturday, July 16th, 2011 Aboriginal 110 Comments

Broome: Proposed new camels policy

Cable Beach camels in 2003. Photo: Nachoman - au, Wikimedia.

Cable Beach camels in 2003. Photo: Nachoman - au, Wikimedia.

Broome Shire intends to introduce new regulations for camel operators on Cable Beach.

This includes a “three strikes and you are out” policy whereby licenses would be revoked if regulations are breached.

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Broome: Camels, pearls and tourism

Cable Beach camels in 2003. Photo: Nachoman - au, Wikimedia.

Cable Beach camels in 2003. Photo: Nachoman - au, Wikimedia.

Vanessa Croll takes a camel ride in Broome and writes about the sordid history of pearling.

Also a little about the bird observatory.

Adelaide Advertiser [read this story]

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Sunday, March 6th, 2011 Broome, Business and finance 125 Comments

Broome: Camel man buys rival business

Camel rides operator John Geappen says he will buy back rival business Ships of the Desert.

Mr Geappen, who owns Red Sun Camels, told The West Australian he had made a private arrangement with his rival in Perth this week.

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Friday, February 25th, 2011 Broome, Business and finance 12 Comments

Broome: Camel wars man fined $25,000

Cable Beach camels in 2003. Photo: Nachoman - au, Wikimedia.

Cable Beach camels in 2003. Photo: Nachoman - au, Wikimedia.

Convicted camel man Chrisopher Howard Hill (37) copped a $25,000 fine but avoided jail today.

Judge Stephen Scott gave him three months to pay the fine for burglary and stealing offences committed during his time as a Cable Beach camel rides operator.

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Thursday, February 24th, 2011 Broome, Business and finance, Police and courts 3 Comments

Broome: Hill convicted in ‘camel wars’ trial

A former camel operator was found guilty of theft, burglar and damaging property after a four-day trial.

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Saturday, February 12th, 2011 Broome, Police and courts 3 Comments
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