"Those Welcoming Lights" (04:38)

by ptreacy

Dr. Patrick Treacy worked with the Royal Flying Doctor Service in Broken Hill NSW Australia in 1996. The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia is a not-for-profit charitable Service providing aeromedical emergency and primary health care services together with communication and education assistance to people who live, work and travel in regional and remote Australia. These are some of his memories. The pictures of camels in the outback are the descendants of the hard-working Afghan dromedaries brought over in the 19th century, before roads and railroads were present to build the telegraphs. Hundreds of thousands of feral camels roam Australia's outback. There are 700,000 at the latest count, doubling every 10 years.