NB: I live in Darwin, Northern Australia, and camels are a way of life in these parts and are accepted as quite normal, despite being an introduced species.

I've heard it said that there are actually more camels in the Australian outback than there are in the Arabian desert, and in fact I recall that we had to send a bunch of camels back to the Middle East some time ago to make up for a shortage they were facing there.

NB: Our main railway system here is called "The Ghan" after the nickname given to the Afghan camel herders of old.