>>1789003My Dad is a cameleer (adventure-tourism trips), I grew up working with him as a sort of side thing. It's seasonal during winter in Aus, because then in the arid centre of the country its nice, and not too hot. You might even get some rainy days during a week or two on average.
We would always get fat during the off-season, because city life etc. Both of us are big strong guys, and have appetites. Gain and lose weight easily and are always muscular.
Anyway the trips we would do were amazing for personal health.
Basically if youre getting from one area to another it might take a week or two. So you're doing some very light, but constant, walking. We dont ride the camels as they carry everything we need, and we are about 15 hours from getting a medivac (were so far from helicopter bases, and too far from any landing strips for Royal Flying Doctors. So any emergency is a lot of sat-phone work, dealing with map coordinates, and us having to move the injured person to a random track that an ambulance can drive to. (This is what drove him out of business, the impossibility of covering all emergency possibilities to a modern level, especially when dealing with classes of high school kids).
So anyway, we would have to ration the whole time. On top of this there is no refrigeration. We would start out each trip with a few days of meat, kept as cool as possible (carrying ice was not possible, but you can keep things quite cool if they dont get direct sunlight, and are kept closed untill needed).
So the diet would consist of pasta type meals, stews and curries, where it could all be put together in a pot and have the dried parts (like rice) cooked in the meal so no water is wasted. We would have dried meats like pepperoni and metwurst to add a bit of flavour and protein to the food, but it wasnt much. Basically it was onions and beans and various vegetables like carrots and anything hard and easy to travel, potatoes, etc. We would also have nuts dates, sultanas-
