‘He joked about never going hungry in the Australian outback because of the amount of flies you can eat,’ says police inspector

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A German tourist missing for almost three weeks in the Queensland outback has survived the ordeal by eating flies.



Inspector Mark Henderson says Daniel Dudzisz, 26, was picked up by a motorist late Thursday afternoon near Cooper Creek at Windorah, south-west of Longreach.

He went missing on 17 February after attempting to walk between Windorah and Jundah.

Henderson said Dudzisz became stranded between floodwaters from the Barcoo river for about 10 days.

He lived on insects for most of the time, Henderson said.

“He certainly was hungry, but other than that he was in reasonable spirits,” he told ABC Radio.

“He joked about never going hungry in the Australian outback because of the amount of flies you can eat for their protein apparently.

“He had some baked beans and cereal when he left Windorah and exhausted that pretty quickly, and said he’d been eating flies ever since.”