I’m so delighted – and a tad surprised – to hear Neil Waters and his trusty camel Othello have won the 2009 Camel Cup in Alice Springs. Surprised because he told me six years ago that he was too old for it and was going to retire. He was, even then, a fair age for such a rough sport but they make ‘em tough in outback Australia.
I’m so tickled to hear he is still racing, I have hunted around in my archives and found an excerpt of the story I wrote about him back in 2003… I hope you enjoy ‘meeting’ him as much as I did.