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“Whenever I’m away and I come home I walk across Country,” says Wayne. “I feel the power and the energy come straight through. This is why I live very close to all my traditional foods. As close as possible in the water, to be able to get that spiritual connection to the place, my connection to Country. Having the foods close to nature and on Country, I can receive these visions – I call them ‘cultural visions’ – and they allow these beautiful dreams to come through. They come from a long way back in the creation stories and that’s what the food does to me, it connects me.”

Wayne took Heath and Addy for a walk, forage, and a cook-up on the beach. He explained his people’s millennia-old connection to the local coastline, and how their food continues to connect them to it today.

“We had an amazing afternoon with Wayne,” reflects Heath, “going and foraging some seafood straight out of the ocean right there, and then going for a walk around that headland and grabbing those beautiful fresh salty greens then cooking up that food over the granite rocks right there, watching the sunset behind the mother mountain of that area is something I’ll never forget and it left a deep imprint on me.”

‘A Walk on Country’ is a bonus episode of Farm Boys: Road Wombats, filmed, directed and edited by Harry Triglone.