These flies are driving me crazy. Small stupid bugging flies, which aim straight at your face/head, specifically its openings, i.e. nose, eyes, mouth and ears. No mosquitos though, although I must say I’m not sure which I would prefer. At least the mosquitos here leave your face alone and head for your legs. It’s really a funny thing I’ve been noticing since we’re on this side of the planet: Asian and Australian mosquitos don’t buzz around your head and bite you in the back of the neck or in the juicy place behind the ears like Canadian mosquitos do, they go for your feet and legs. Really it’s true, and I’ve been wondering what is with them. If anybody can give me a clue, please do.
Right now we’re both rather tired. It’s about a gazillion degrees and we got up at 5h00 this morning to go watch the sun rise over Uluru (formerly know as Ayer’s rock) and Kata Tjuta (the Olgas, a serie of massive rock formations about 35 km from Uluru). We watched the light come up on the horizon and reflect on the rocks and then headed out for a hike in the Valley of the Winds. After lunch we visited the cultural center where the aboriginal legends surrounding the area are explained, and now we’re kaputti and warmi. Oh yeah, we also have clothes on the line drying, which we will need to shake out well before puting them away because the washing machine was full of wings (the big bugs I took out before starting the wash). That’s another interesting phenomenon here, the wings. I think they are termites actually, and some places there are petazillions of them. If you happen to be driving, well, they crash into your windshield and the whole front of the car. Sometimes there are so many it sounds like rain, and then you can barely see out of the window. Or on the campground they get out at night and go crazy around the lights (typical bug-drug usage), and then they fall on the floor and die, and the ants come and get the corpses but leave the wings there. So when you walk there’s some “fluff” flying around,which is a pile of wings. And now you know why we’ll shake our clothes.