What on earth could make two wonderfully attractive people turn into grotesque ogres ...

Could it be the fear of imminent doom? Could it be the sight of ghastly horrors?

Could it even be a wretched and obscene odour unleashed by a hideous being? Or could it be something, much, much worse ....

Yes my friends. This is a bark filled with wiggling witchetty grubs (aka really fat worms). In times gone by, long before McDonald's, prior to the foundations of the first Starbucks being built, those that roamed the lands here ate this ungodly creatures. They look like something that would explode its white puss under the slightest pressure. They appear to wiggle away from your reluctant grasp as you fetch them. By god their very sight filled us with repulsion. But they were rather tasty and we even had seconds. So there you go.

To celebrate we went to the Sunset market in Darwin. Here, hundreds of stands sell Delicious produce on the beach. Our favorite were the Indonesian and Timor stands. The Philippino and Vietnamese ones were quite tasty too. The best part of all was the fact that the food was first rate and yet dirt cheap! The winner, though was a slow-roasted lamb shank. So we ate till our stomachs fought back...

... and we then ate some more, then more still. Then even more.


Then we wobbled our way onto the beach and enjoyed a marvellous sunset.




Don't forget to scroll down for an update on what we saw in Uluru ...