CAMEL DRIVE: Camels ... coming to a roadside near 
you ... details ahead on Passport to Texas ... 
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Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife 

If you live between the coast and Kerrville, don't be 
alarmed should you see camels walking along the 
roadside next week.
 
I am doing a sesquicentennial camel drive to commemorate the 
importation of these camels on the Texas coast. And that's going to 
run from May 20th through June 11th. It's a 200-plus mile, 23-day camel 
drive that starts at Indianola and ends at Camp Verde, where the 
camels were actually headquartered: 18 

In 1856, imported camels were drafted into service as 
pack animals for the US Army's Camel Corps. Doug Baum, 
is owner/operator of the Texas Camel Corps, a 
recreational and educational operation, which offers 
hiking vacations, where camels carry the supplies. He's 
herding the camels along the same path the animal 
recruits traversed 150 years ago.

Our actual terminus with be at Camp Verde, at the general store, which 
has served that little Hill Country Community for a hundred fifty years. 
It's the post office, and even during military times, before during and 
after the Civil War, that's where all the soldiers would go to pick up 
their mail, or drinks, and that's where we're going to end up on June 
eleventh. :18

You can read Doug's blog and view pictures of the camel 
drive in process, and even meet up with the caravan at 
Campe Verde. Learn how by logging onto texascamelcorps.com.

That's out show for today ... for Texas Parks and 
Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti.