The first day and a half at Karamea was great, sunny=low sandfly numbers.
Then it became overcast, and the swarm from hell came like a cloud of mini demons into the van and onto me. I was eaten alive, aahh - I fought back valiantly, I must have killed half a thousand of the wee buggers over 5 hours.
I nearly retreated back to civilisation - but hung out 1 night with the campervan windows tightly closed. In the morning I broke camp, and ran with tail between my legs. The van had its windows and doors wide open while I drove at 70km/hr to try and blow out the dawn swarm - it worked so headed for home --- until the 'bush bee' stung me near Hanmer Springs - Ouch
Oh yes - at least 50 or so itchy bites on my legs, toes, fingers elbows, knuckles, backs of legs, face boohoo ;O(
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Great post. Here is an article on how to beat a sandfly attack. I think you can do a google search for "Sandfly defense" or link here-
http://www.tongacharter.com/sandfly.htm
Hope that helps.
Scott
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