The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #89072   Message #1678029
Posted By: Joybell
24-Feb-06 - 04:30 PM
Thread Name: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
Subject: RE: BS: 'So where the bloody hell are you?'
And do you know who brought the camels? (and their handlers)
George Coppin!!! That's who!! Musician, singer, fiddler, comedian, Mr Theatre himself!
There! Now it's a music thread!

Coppin donated camels to the Burke and Wills expedition. If they had been better tied up, one fateful night in the middle of the desert, the expedition might have made it back instead of perishing. The camels wisely beat it back South to Adelaide. Cheers, Joy