RV FEATURE
Both Mark and his better half both scored hundreds of tiny bites from head to toe .
The crazed and violent airswatting went on and on . We endured many hours of walloping and slapping our invisible enemy targets , hiding under the sheets , which caused the hot and humid conditions to become unbearable , seeing us peep from the sheets from time to time for fresh air . They attacked our faces , up our noses , in our ears , through our hair and on our eyelids , under the sheets to devour our bodies , as well as our legs right down to the toes .
If there were ever to be a perfect campsite torture , surely being bit by insects so small that you couldn ’ t see them would be near the top of the list !
As an extra piece of perhaps trivial information , some reports note that various breeds of midge activities vary around the lunar cycle . Guess what ? Our rotten experience was on a full moon – I kid you not ! We could not have chosen a worse night to spend on this particular waterway .
THEY WON THE BATTLE
Our regular camping routine of an earlyish rise to the day ' s first steaming hot cuppa was canned at the crack of dawn . With our fastest camp pack-up and departure ever , our 4x4 HiAce was soon headed to the first town with a pharmacy to help relieve our incessant itching and the emerging red sores all over our bodies .
After a dose of antihistamines , several passes of itch-soothing cream , and extra strong coffee – well , the coffee did nothing other than settle our nerves and calm our battle-scarred bodies – we soon felt a slowing of the midgeinduced itching .
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