The Most I Ever Saw

[THE PILGRIM]

I mentioned in that pic thread about seeing several hundred Deer carcasses hanging in that Las Vegas ice plant.
Most I ever saw!
A while back I was cutting across N Texas. Pretty much out in the middle of nowhere.
I see a Camel! Really? Then some more, a few more, then more!
Have told folks I saw maybe 100.
After giving it more thought, probably closer to 50.
But it was the most Camels I ever saw!
So what’s the most of something you ever saw?

 

[gjgalligan]

20 in a pack, 10 packs in a carton - that's 200 camels right there.

 

[H Richard]

In NE Missouri there was a farmer that had camels, and Lama's. Always made me turn my head when I passed his farm. Ironically when I was stationed in Wheelus AFB, Tripoli, Libya, N Africa I never saw any at all. However the rumor was the cook at the chow hall cooked camel and passed it off as beef.

 

[Papa Lee]

There's a few camels around here in the Hill Country. Apparently not near as many as you saw.

 

[Big guy]

Evidently Camels make good guardian animals

 

[THE PILGRIM]

While stationed in Marrakesh during WWII, my FIL visited French Legionnaires and their local Friends who butchered and cooked a Baby Camel.

 

[Onomea]

Evidently Camels make good guardian animals

I've read of llamas being used to guard sheep from predators.

 

[Harrison]

I mentioned in that pic thread about seeing several hundred Deer carcasses hanging in that Las Vegas ice plant.
Most I ever saw!
A while back I was cutting across N Texas. Pretty much out in the middle of nowhere.
I see a Camel! Really? Then some more, a few more, then more!
Have told folks I saw maybe 100.
After giving it more thought, probably closer to 50.
But it was the most Camels I ever saw!
So what’s the most of something you ever saw?

That just proves that things are bigger in Texas.

 

[Rustyt1953]

I saw 102K vociferous fans at The Shoe.

 

[Bald1]

So I was 18. I walked into my first topless bar and ……….. never mind.

 

[armadillo]

There were camels in the Texas hill country back before the Civil War. The Army experimented with them at Fort Camp Verde (between Kerrville and Bandera). They had more than 100 before the Army lost interest. Robert E. Lee was involved in building the fort.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Camel Corps? Yes indeed!
You do know who originated the Camel Corps?
Jeff Davis. Yes’m that Jeff Davis.
He was Secretary of War at that time.
I’ve been to Camp Verde and seen the Hi Jolly Monument in Quartzite, AZ.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Let’s get back to them llamas.
A few ago up in N NM I’m headed East on a Mountain Highway.
Tilt! There’s a bunch, probably close to a Thou of sheep headed West.
Coming down from high country summer grazing.
Best thing to do is slow down, ease up to them and just stop in the road.
They’ll flow around you.
Some herders walking, some on horses.
Several trailing trucks with trailers.
And I think four llamas.
The sheep pretty much just walked past, like they were walking around a big rock.
But them llamas were looking, smelling, investigating.
He just don’t look right! He’s up to something!
I just know it!
So was that the largest sheep herd I ever saw?
No! But it was the most sheep I ever saw walking down a US Highway! US 64.

 

[swsig]

Years ago I saw a single camel grazing on a ranch alongside Highway 287 south of Wichita Falls. That was quite a surprise indeed. That's the most camel I've ever seen in North Texas.

The most of something I ever saw was 15,000 country & western fans at Johnny Cash/June Carter/Statler Brothers concert at the Oakland Arena around 1969. Normally, there aren't more than 15 country & western fans in Oakland.

 

[boykinlp]

About 25-30 years ago I was taking what I thought was a shortcut, and as I rounded a curve, what do I see in a large fenced in pasture? I saw about 50 Buffalo! That was without a doubt the MOST that I had ever seen. Now I know to you folks out west, that might be an everyday occurrence, but here in South Carolina, it’s definitely out of the norm! They were beautiful. It was before the day of camera phones, so I just stopped and gawked at them. I still wonder what they were doing there…..being raised for their meat, or just for fun? I few years later, I happened by the same pasture and they weren’t visible. I would guess if they escaped their fenced in pasture by knocking down the fence, it wouldn’t be like getting normal cattle back in, and could be kinda dangerous.
Larry

 

[lihpster]

I've read of llamas being used to guard sheep from predators.

There is a guy who lives about 2 miles from me who has a small herd of sheep. You can hear the coyotes in the area about every other night. He has a couple llamas in with the sheep. They seem to do the job. Probably wouldn't do well against timber wolves and grizzlies, but for coyotes and cougars they seem to be effective.

 

[lihpster]

As far as the most I ever saw, I've been to Sturgis. Must have been a couple hundred thousand hoochie mamas there.

 

[Retired W4]

Last week the TSA would not let me board with my emotional support camel. My anxiety levels were off the chart. I guess I'll have to downsize to a llama.

 

[mtgianni]

My wife and I were headed to West Yellowstone to see our son a few years back. We had about 400 + head of elk moving across the highway in front of us. We figured they had the right of way.

Coming back from an ice fishing day a friend and I took a drive up a long abandoned mine road to scout the country. It was cold, about -20 and the opposite hill side was steaming vapor all over it. We had a cheap pair of binoculars and figured it was elk bedded in the sun and their breath was showing. No count on them but it could have exceeded the ones running.

I was doing a monthly check at a natural gas gate station/transfer site one October 1st. [required chart change on the 1st of the month].
The Basque sheep owner and his herders were trying to fit 3 + bands of sheep in a corral that might have held 1500. A band of sheep is 600 ewes + lambs. There were sheep everywhere and no one was happy with the possible exception of the herders dogs. When I made my way out of the semi secluded area, I saw several cattle trucks starting to turn in. I almost wished I had had time to go back and watch.

Wife and I were on a tour boat in the Antarctic peninsula. We were listening to a retired former employee at Palmer and McMurdo Stations, who was employed by the cruise. IIRC he had a doctorate in marine wildlife. He was talking about the penguins on the shore of a inlet as we watched through binoculars. The guess was that there were 1500 + penguins but for me the kicker was when he stated that they were all this years chicks as the adults had left them there to swim and figure out life.

 

[soFlaNative]

Walking along a shady sidewalk along the canal one time sounded like juicy bubble wrap underfoot.
The walkway was a living mat of thousands of juvenile cane toads that had just lost their tail.