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. I suspect, given the broken bones, it was hit by a vehicle at night, but maybe it just keeled over and the breaking of the bones happened later. Passing to the right of the camel and heading out of the frame to the left is a track. Although for safety reasons we did not drive at night in the desert as a rule, it was quite common for others to do so. That's why I think the camel was hit by a car or truck.
Unlike the cow I hit in South Africa, the camel's legs are taller and the front of a typical car or even a Land Rover will basically submarine through the camel's legs which leaves the camel's body hitting the windshield at whatever speed you are driving. I lost count of the number of photos I've seen of wrecked cars with camels inside them. Unfortunately for both the camels and the occupants of the cars, the camel's didn't use the doors to get there. They just entered through the windshield at 40 miles or more per hour!
This one had clearly been here a while. Carrion and bugs have cleaned all the flesh of this poor beast over the years leaving just it's leathery skin, stretched as taught as a drum from the heat and dryness.
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