Saturday, 29 DEC 2012, Adelaide, South Australia
One of our most unexpected discoveries during this visit to Australia has been the flies. These are not like our polite, if somewhat unclean, American houseflies. They are everywhere: in the city, in the desert, on the beach, in the mountains. They are brazen, aggressive, in-your-face (literally) ubiquitous pests. They crawl on your nose, they land in my beard, they would drink the moisture from your tear ducts and eat the buggers in your nose! The highway workers wear sensible broad-brimmed hats to protect them from the sun, with fly nets hanging from the brim and cinched around their necks to enforce a little privacy from the invaders. Here is Paula giving the Australian salute: a shoo-fly wave back and forth in front of your face, repeated every few seconds.
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