Story highlights "I didn't think anyone was going to find me," Reg Foggerdy tells Australian TV

The 62-year-old grandfather says the ants he ate to stay alive "tasted quite good"

He hasn't ruled out going back to the area to look for his gun he left in the bush

(CNN) A grandfather who ate ants to survive while lost for six days without water in the Australian outback says he thought he was going to die out in the wilderness.

Reg Foggerdy, 62, was on a hunting trip with his brother last month in the Great Victoria Desert in Western Australia when he set off in pursuit of a camel he'd shot.

Photos: Hunter survives six days without water by eating ants Photos: Hunter survives six days without water by eating ants A hunter survived six days without water in a huge Australian desert by eating black ants, police said. Hide Caption 1 of 4 Photos: Hunter survives six days without water by eating ants Reginald Foggerdy, 62, had embarked on a hunting trip with his brother in the Great Victoria Desert in Western Australia. Hide Caption 2 of 4 Photos: Hunter survives six days without water by eating ants He went missing Wednesday after setting off to hunt animals in the dry, sandy wilderness, wearing only a t-shirt, shorts and flip-flops, according to police. Hide Caption 3 of 4 Photos: Hunter survives six days without water by eating ants "His last couple of days of survival were achieved by lying down under a tree and eating black ants," Police Superintendent Andy Greatwood told local radio. "That's the level of survival that Mr. Foggerdy has gone to." Hide Caption 4 of 4

"I followed this camel into the bush. I'd gone at least 30K, I didn't know where I was," he told CNN affiliate Seven Network , recounting his errant 19-mile wander and the extraordinary tale of survival that followed.

Foggerdy found himself alone with only the shorts, T-shirt, flip-flops and hat he was wearing. He had a valuable source of food right in front of him -- the dead camel he'd chased down -- but no means with which to eat it.

"I didn't have a knife, and I didn't have matches for a fire," he said. "So I couldn't go and cut a steak off the animal because I had no way to cook it and had no way to cut it."

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