Saturday, December 26, Boxing Day

Another holiday, but there were lots more businesses open today than on Christmas. Today we hiked the Bunker Bay track, near the Cape Naturaliste Lighthouse in Leeuwin Naturaliste N.P. Absolutely gorgeous ocean and cliff views, with water so clear and a true turquoise color. The only drawback were the flies, which were the worst we’ve experienced so far. We wore our fly nets for the first time, and decided they were by far and away the best investment we could have made. We also saw lots of other people wearing them, something we’d not seen before, but without them we could not have done the hike at all, the flies were that bad. The net fits over your hat, and limits your vision somewhat, although you get used to it fairly quickly. At the end of our hike, we walked down to the beach, without our fly nets, and although the flies were somewhat less annoying down at the water, just going up and down the short distance from the car and back was amazingly bad with the flies. We were literally covered with them, ugh…….

I hate those little suckers. You look and feel like you’re wearing a burka with the nets on, but anything is better than dealing with the flies.