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Crushed By Camels

A family trip turned to terror for Boyd

Boyd Sampson, 56, Brisbane, Qld

As the fiery red sun set over Uluru, it illuminated the vast red expanse of dirt around us.

‘This is spectacular,’ I called out to my sister Natalie, then 38, and her son Clay, six, as they trundled behind me on the back of a camel.

It was March 2022, and the three of us had flown from Brisbane to Yulara, NT, that morning to visit Uluru, one of the country’s most iconic and sacred landmarks.

By a stroke of luck, there

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