The camels are coming [to Texas, again]

San Antonio Express-News ^ | 05/28/2006 | Zeke MacCormack

[decal]

My pipe band was in Bandera for their Memorial Day parade two weekends ago. They were setting up the Texas Camel Corps Day celebration at the courthouse. Here's what all they did.

http://www.banderacountycourier.com/events.htm#came0525

[Tammy8]

My dad rode a camel once and said it felt like it was about to do a forward roll with every stride. He said it gave him very close to vertigo-sea sickness type feeling in the pit of his stomach. He was a cowboy (real one) and spent most of his life on a horse but said camel riding was an experience he could do without.

[Liberty Valance]

Camel trek

Camels wait their turn in front of the Polly Chapel in the Privilege Creek valley south of Bandera on Thursday afternoon.

Published June 03, 2006 in the Kerrville Daily Times
Photo by Jack Parker

[SwinneySwitch]

Nice looking camel! Not foaming and drooling at the mouth.

[donmeaker]

The story is that someone tied themself to an ornery male camel, and the camel went off into the desert. It rolled over killing the guy, and his bones were carried around on the back of the lone camel for several years.