PORT FAIRY CAMEL RIDES

09/01/2026

The camel rides will be closed today ,Saturday due to the high winds ,we should be back on Sunday but please check ,Sorry for the inconvenience but Safety first 👍

29/12/2025

Camel Rides are back today starting at 11.30

13/12/2025

The camels will be back at George Dodds Reserve at Port Fairy 11am on the 27th of December ,$15 per person cash or $17 by card ,its the same rules as Mc Donalds everyone pays the same price for an ice cream and everyone pays the same price for a camel ride ,3 and 4 yr olds pay as well but must sit on an adults lap ,this is for safety .There is no need to book as we will have 6 camels working ,just turn up .

21/01/2025

We dont have a weight limit at Port Fairy Camel Rides 👍

There’s not much a camel can’t carry!
This magnificent photo entitled “Camels carrying a boat” was taken by John Flynn and is part of the Australian Inland Mission collection.
Rev Flynn took the photo sometime in the late 1800s but the location is unknown.
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Up until the early 1860s, the belief was that there was a great inland sea in Central Australia, so an exploring expedition had to be prepared for anything…though it should be noted that as this photograph was taken by Rev Flynn at the end of the 19th century, this is NOT a photograph of one of those grand exploring expeditions.
Perhaps these cameleers were simply moving a boat between two river systems.
We will never the know the context of this photograph.
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The camel carrying the mast has a weighted bag as balance on the near side. No doubt there is a similar weight counterbalancing the boat.
Neither of these loads would have been particularly heavy, just awkward to load.
But it’s still a fantastic photograph.

Note:
This is a colourised photograph of a glass negative. It was common practice to colour photographs back then.
And the boat is probably wooden, although it should be noted that camels regularly carried
large square iron water tanks. Similar to what can be seen in the foreground.

National Library of Australia
nla.pic-an24382397-v. Used by permission.

18/01/2025

8 days left ,thanks to the wonderful people that have ridden so far ,really pleasing to see so many locals come back every year and support us ❤️👏👏👏

12/01/2025

Great to see the original camelman drop into Port Fairy

11/01/2025

Great day in Port Fairy