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4 unusual facts about The Camels


The Camels

After a performance at the Come Together Music Festival The band was then commissioned to write 3 songs for a documentary about Sydney's Bra Boys surf gang from Maroubra and returned to Birdland for the recording.

2006 saw the band record three tracks for the Bra Boys documentary, as well as songwriter Jamie Holt contributing the film's theme song "My Brothers' Keeper" & 18 other pieces for the original score.

The band returned to the studio in September 2005 to record the follow-up single "On Top Of The World", a tribute to Edmund Hillary& Tenzing Norgay, the first two people to climb Mount Everest.

The Romance EP also features two tracks from the Bra Boys documentary.



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Anthemis

Anthemis species are used as food plants by the camelse of some Lepidoptera species including Orthonama obstipata (The Gem) and Bucculatrix anthemidella, a leaf-miner which feeds exclusively on Anthemis tinctoria.

Australian feral camel

Most of the camels brought to Australia were dromedaries, especially from India, including the Bikaneri war camel from Rajasthan as a riding camel and lowland Indian camels for heavy work.

Campbell Fighting Camels

Karl Herrmann played for the Camels in the 1982-83 season then later went on to a New York Mets farm club.

Campbell Fighting Camels baseball

However, success was short lived as the Camels lost 7-0 to Stanford University and 8-7 to Southern Illinois University at the Palo Alto Regional.