I went out on the estuary yesterday to avoid the heat by getting wet and immersed in mud. Getting wet was pretty easy. Getting muddy was also effortless, but avoiding the biting flies turned out to be impossible unless I was completely immersed in the mud.
I arrived before low tide so my first order of business was cooling off in the creek (pictured on the left). After that, I went to where I would be getting immersed and I tried shooting a short self-bondage tutorial. That didn’t quite go as planned, but it wasn’t a complete loss.
After shooting my tutorial, I took out a hammer, of sorts, that I brought with me to drive my 4×4 deeper into the mud, in the hope that it would get tightly lodged so I could not pull it back up. I wasn’t able to do that, but I had fun trying … at least as long as I could stay deep enough in the mud to avoid the biting flies.
I put together a short video with some of the encounters I had with flies that got caught on camera (that is encounters that got caught; not flies). Personally, I find this video hard to watch, but I think it’s important to show, in the interest of science.
looks like you located a swarm of them nasty yellow flies, they been bad down this way around Ocean Isle also. Spiders, nats, house flies and yellow flies have just been horrible this year. And its dry, dry and dry. Still in the red for the drought figures. Sad part, makes it hard to enjoy your mud adventures with them annoying flies.
Hello, NakedBuffBody! Yes, the flies found me. It seems like, once they find me, they lock in like pit bulls. They just keep coming back until I kill them or they get a pint of my blood.
They were not as bad the last time I went out. Not sure why. It might have been windier.