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Originally posted by Snowtractor
Again , you have to ask Alex about the simplicity and complexity of the North, I can't quite adjust to it.
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Sean...
I'm like you...liked it but wouldn't want to spend the rest of my days there..When my girls were small we had to pull nylon stockings over their heads,down to their eyebrows with their little ears well covered and down the back of their necks as far as possible just to keep the black flies out of their hair and eating them alive ,starting behind the ears..
Next....The mosquitoes came in clouds out of the grass or bush and attacked leaving welts as big as a quarter..Pretty soon everyone was on antihystimines to fight off the allergic reactions to their bights..And they never gave up...
Moving up the scale was the deer flies...
Twin engines ...sawed hugh chunks of meat out of their victims..left,bloody chunks of human flesh steaming rivers of blood from their jaws,staggering into flight like an overloaded bomber ....
Top of the scale was the moose flies....
Took animals and small children back to their dens as snacks..
Could chew through three layers of bush gear and still chew a hunk of meat out of you that looked like a gunshot wound...
And they were fast...could land..chew out a chunk and be gone in seconds...
It seems like their bights instantly injected temporary pain killer because the pain should have been instantaneous but you usually felt nothing for a few minutes after they had gone..
After realizing you had been bitten and staunching the flow of blood by pressure ,tourniquet of was ever method you could employ..came the pain...and the itch..
But the worst of the worst was the "No-see-ums"...Little tiny flys that would go through the screening like like an Indy race car and bight everywhere that all the others missed..and they were merciless..too small to see instantly..had to really look for them but you sure felt them ..That is what starts the hunt for them..the pain and the blood stream..
And they were vicious and also attached endlessy outside and insde....at least the screens could keep the outhers at bay but not No see ums...The pain and blood baths were endless along with the itch,infected bights..missing limbs and hugh festering flybight wounds...
Did I mention horse flys....??
A more known species here in the south...Well there aren't any..The deer flies eat them...couldn't survive ..not tough enough...and besides a horse wouldn't survive the bush flies a week..
And that is only the fly attractions of the North...
Stay there too long and it becomes normal....
Comfortable.....unreal...unrealistic...paranoia... booze....fights....
racism...depression..suiside..death...high prices... despair....
And it all starts with the bloody flies....
Sean ..you are doing the right thing to get out..I would suggest Ottawa,and I'd love to have you but you would be going from the frying pan into the fire...Stay West of the Ontario border...
Just my humble opinion...