by Zara Mustapha

A 26-year-old tourist, Daniel Dudzisz who was missing for almost three weeks claimed to have survived the ordeal by eating flies.

Dudzisz went missing on February 17 after he missed his way and became stranded in the wilderness.

According to an Inspector,  Mark Henderson, the tourist was picked up by a motorist late Thursday afternoon.

The Guardian UK reports:

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.”