Ep. 808: Walking Across Australia With Five Wild Camels - Revisited - Sophie Matterson
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Originally aired January 11, 2021
After needing a break from her career in film and TV, Sophie took a very fortuitous turn in her life by finding the most random job she could, milking camels. If you didn’t realize camels could be milked, neither did I.
To make a long story short, Sophie fell in love with camels and never went back to her old career. Her ongoing 5-year passion for camels has taken her to places like The Flinders Ranges, Lake Eyre and The Tirari Desert, Uluru, Michigan USA, Texas, and Rajasthan India.
At some point in the pursuit to learn more about these amazing creatures, Sophie got the idea to cross Australia on foot while being accompanied by 5 wild (or “feral”) camels. This would not only entail catching and taming 5 out of upwards of a million wild camels that roam Australia, but also walking thousands of kilometers across the vast and void Australian Outback. Keep in mind, Australia is the geographic size of the US with 1/10th of the population. A wild idea indeed!
Today Sophie joins us from just over the halfway point of the journey in the bizarre little town of Coober Pedy.
Check out this past Monday’s episode for an update to this adventure.
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| 0:00.0 | everything was packed in the saddlebags |
| 0:03.0 | and they're all taking off into the distance |
| 0:05.4 | with all of my safety equipment on their backs. |
| 0:09.1 | And I, so I'm running after them. |
| 0:11.1 | I started to lose sight of them at one point. |
| 0:14.2 | I had to keep stopping and listening to the sound |
| 0:16.9 | of the jerry cans flapping about on the back camel. |
| 0:19.8 | Music of the jerry cans flapping about on the back camel. |
| 0:37.2 | Hey folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. We played Sophie's episode, her new episode on Monday, which is the update, the part |
| 0:44.1 | two to the adventure of walking across Australia with five feral camels. |
| 0:50.5 | Today is, we're just going to revisit the original episode that was released early last year |
| 0:57.3 | episode 695 where we originally talked to sophie when she was about halfway through the |
| 1:02.4 | adventure so instead of you know having you try to go back in the the backlog and find it |
| 1:07.7 | just bringing it to you right here. So enjoy. |
| 1:13.6 | Definitely check out Monday's episode after this for the part two. |
| 1:14.8 | So this is part one. |
| 1:15.8 | That is part two. |
| 1:18.2 | And without further ado, let's go ahead and jump into Sophie's story. All right, folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 1:33.0 | This is, gosh, this is an interesting one right here. |
| 1:36.8 | You know, we get a lot of cyclists, a lot of hikers, and, you know, folks just doing random things. |
| 1:43.5 | But this is, this is out there for us. It's, I don't even know what you call it. Sophie Camel trekking or something. But anyway, Sophie, Sophie Maderson, welcome to the show. Thank you, Mason. Thanks for having me. Yeah. So is this a thing walking with camels? Or are you kind of out on your own on this one well i mean i guess it's a thing |
| 2:02.7 | for some people it's it's not super common um but uh yeah i'm out on my own so it's me and five camels |
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