Bush Trip to Camel Creek

The week before last I took my class out bush, we foraged for bush food! I was loving it… I tell you what, if you didn’t know exactly what you were looking for you would starve out here!!

We collected some sugar bag which is like honey. It is produced by a little insect which looks like a fly. The make their nests in termite mounds or some times holes in trees. We went in search around the termite mounds at Camel Creek. You search for one or two little flies hovering and then listen to see if there is a buzz coming from the mound. If there is... dig!!

The syrup inside is beautiful, just like honey, the nectar around is a little bitter, but I have some funny ideas for use in cooking!!

The kids scrambled to the top of Boab trees (OH&S? only refers to Oh Holy Spirit out here!)

They collected the nuts, which I’d tried before. They are like powdery apple with plenty of seeds big seeds. We snacked on Boab nuts as we searched for sugar bag…

Shirley (one of the elders with us) managed to find some yams. We toasted those on the fire. They are the roots of tree suckling, they tasted like potato.

We made damper, they liked my girl guide trick of swirling it around a stick, baking it, removing it and filling it with sugar bag!! Below, Francis is showing his potential in 'Axe safety101!'