Ryan ate a GRUB!

Specifically, he ate a section of a witchetty grub marinated in a Greek yogurt sauce. Found and harvested by the indigenous people, this larvae was once an important source of protein for desert dwellers. On the Bushtucker tour, we canoed on the Margaret River, crawled though a tight tunnel in a cave, washed in the river, smell & taste tested native foods, and trekked through the bush. I’m a user of tea tree oil and today I saw the tree and leaves responsible for producing the antiseptic oil. At times Ryan and I managed to get our groove with the oars, but most of the time our pattern was a zig zag. Our lunch was a spread of nuts, berries, blood lime, kangaroo meat, emu meat, turkey, sun dried tomato bread, cheese, honey, crackers and various chutneys made from local ingredients. Our guide Gordon was pleasant and the group small. Our life in Tokyo doesn’t often intersect with this much nature so, despite the flies, we all took advantage of the opportunity and got dirty. Next time we won’t wear white shirts.