Those B***** flies!

Greg,

camping stores sell fly nets, cheap and they do the trick. Once you get them off your face you don't notice them.

Gheers
The ape

Find some stinkhorn fungus and rub the spores all over your face . That will do wonders .

Hey Greg you can always keep a bucket of fresh bleep around and they should be attracted to that. LOL.

A serious note: Try the bushmans gel.

Regards,
Babs

G'day Greg
Cut the bum out of your pants to keep 'em off ya face.

I live in NW WA and I reckon that after a while you learn to live with them. We have friends from other places visit and whinge about the flies..and we haven't really noticed them. Troppo???

Cheers

Waz

There is an Aboriginal National Parks guy at Dalhousie and he told me that "us white fellas from town" attract flies because of all the sweet stuff we eat and drink, beer, coke, jam, sweet bread etc.... also use only plain soap and then only sparingly in th eimportant places.

He says if you eat steaka nd veges, drink black tea or coffee and eat damper or sugarless bread the flies will get better.

I wasn't there long enough to try but he seemed to know what he was talking about.

Good luck

Keep away from blue clothing apparently - it attracts them!

You've Gotta watch out for the ones with warm soggy feet ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, cause they've just come of a fresh cow paddy!!!!!!!!!! :-)

Athol

I remember years ago in Tassie the old man and I were digging the potato patch, and he was having trouble with the pesky flies. Must add that he and I did not have a rocky relationship, but a very loving one.

I wasn't having the fly trouble (cause I was about 13 and not sweating), and in response to his question "why aren't you having fly problems" I replied "because they always settle on bleep " in typical smart ass fashion........

He never forgot that, even on his death bed we had a little laugh about it.

Back to the point - to keep the flies off you, always have a piece of bleep nearby......

I believe that hanging a dead Flying Fox around your neck keeps the mosquitoes away. Not sure if it will work for flies though.....lol

The dunny budgies have been pretty bad everywhere in recent months, and will get worse.

Aerogard used to work, but they must have watered it down, cause it dont do squat these days :(

Me:
Greg, Why did you move to Central Australia
Greg:
I came for the waters
Me:
What waters Greg, we are in the middle of the desert
Greg:
I was missinformed....

Get used to them mate...... There is no cure!
But....
If your out bush you can wipe shiit on your mates back and rid on your own face,
They seem to prefer the shiit which keeps them away from your face. Although this does have its down falls.........Later on when you swallow one you know what hes been eating. LOL
Cheers

In Len Beadell's book "Blast the bush" he describes how he told the first wave of visiting British scientists that the flies disappear on a specified date (can't remember what the date was). Anyway - the remaining scientists changed all their travel plans to arrive after that date.

Anyway - a bullzoder driver once told me that they can't fly very high - so he didn't have a problem when he was at the top of his D10.

OFF Skintastic, works well and doesn't smell like fly spray it actually smells quite good.

Baz.

Im guessing ya either a girl or a Kiwi or both instead of complaning bout the how about enjoying them. heres a couple of games
1) most amount in 1 swat (try and beat your record or play against others)
2) highest number in a row without a miss (2 flys in 1 swat is NOT 2 )
3) on finger kills, use ech finger on eah hand in turn
4) slowest swat still effecting kill
Otherwise just try bushmans repellant - it doesnt come with a helth warnng for no reason

Bushmans insect repellant seems to deter them quite a bit.

Regards
japmel

Thanks all for your contribution??!!
I'll give bushmans ago.
See you out there with me carrying a bucket of s***. the bum out of me trousers, stinkhorn rubbed into me face, wearing a full fly net eating steak and vegies!

Cheers
Greg

You dont need to be in the outback, we work mostly outside and flynets are the only answer for us.
If your gunna spray chite on your face I think bushmans is the best.

What gets me is how do the little bastards know when you have both hands busy?
Thought they were blind?

Cheers Pesty