Wild food fanatics embrace festival’s unique offerings

The Scoop Squad channelled summer with their Feral Flock group costume entry.
The Scoop Squad channelled summer with their Feral Flock group costume entry.
Emcee and entertainer Jackie Clark (left) and Destination Westland chief executive Melanie...
Emcee and entertainer Jackie Clark (left) and Destination Westland chief executive Melanie Anderson share the stage at the celebration of wild and foraged foods.
New Zealand music royalty Sir Dave Dobbyn closes out Saturday’s festival to an appreciative crowd.
New Zealand music royalty Sir Dave Dobbyn closes out Saturday’s festival to an appreciative crowd.

The West Coast’s legendary Wildfoods Festival celebrates weird and wild food, West Coast bush fashion and the fabric of New Zealand music.

At least 8000 people filled Cass Square for Hokitika’s big day out, chowing through hundreds of huhu grubs, whitebait patties and ‘‘mountain oysters’’.

Janna Sherman captured the action.