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Volunteers to the rescue as camels become stuck in Tasmanian wilderness
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John Elliott with the band of volunteers who help shift his stubborn camels.
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A convoy of camels led by an expert cameleer became stuck on rocky terrain on the Tasmanian trail, near Poatina
Rescue volunteers were given crash course in camel handling as part of rescue
John Elliott is a solo adventurer, trekking across Australia with a caravan of camels after giving up his life in Perth
After exhausting your attempts to convince your 300-kilogram companions to shuffle along, you do what adventurer and cameleer John Arthur Elliott did call the State Emergency Service (SES)
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