I've titled the last in my camel series, 'I've been spotted'. The camel has wandered further away from me to the north-east but in this image it's as though it's looking directly at me
Here's perhaps my favorite photo of my series of a camel, alone in a sea of sand. If you saw the first in the series and the second I posted yesterday...
Here's another photo of a camel in the dunes. This camel has decided not to attempt to climb the slip face of the line of dunes in front of him and has decided to explore on my direction to see if there's an easier crossing.
I was in the dunes one afternoon, about to head back to camp when along came a camel into my field of view.
If the camel is the ship of the desert then I think my title for today's photo - Desert Shipwreck - is appropriate. I still wonder how this camel met its end.
The ancient Greeks and Romans knew of giraffes and according to rumors on the internet, thought that they were a cross between a camel and a leopard, hence the scientific genus name of 'camelopardalis'. Not sure how they envisioned a camel and a leopard mating, though - probably after copious quantities of wine!