BeachBassist

yeah I spent 1 year on an island in the Bahamas and that had lots of flies as well as killer mossies and sand flies. once I fried some chicken and the flies got in my apt somehow and were swarming in there....it was like in that movie Amityville.

fish.01

Hate to gloat but not many in Brisbane compared to a lot of places in Oz.

fish.01

Really hate to gloat but not many in Brisbane compared to a lot of places in Oz.

fish.01

G? I'm waiting.....

Grayling

For me?

I agree.....but one of the worst encounters we ever had was at lake Cressbrook up near Toowoomba

The city is not too bad for flies.....far better than Sydney or Adelaide

Amazulu

I'll take your word for it bit I've heard others say different.

fish.01

Would G lie?

Check out article Alfresco has linked above for more confirmation. Ok that's enough gloating now.

looky

The more bush and uncleared forest a place have the more flies there are. Most capital cities would not have as many compared to regional area or the bush.

asprilla

Don't worry - according to the article linked in the post above yours, in Perth they are only a problem in September, October, November, December and January.

So you've still got 5 days of August left...

fish.01

Cheetah7

(Sam nods her head vigorously)

Tis true, I ate my first fly supper the day I moved into my house last October.

Mr PP and I were brutally mugged by a gang of flies on Rotto early this year. They had flick knives, leather jackets, smoked dope, had tarty fly girlfriends on their arms and road fly type motorbikes.

They are bastards. I remember laughing at people on Rotto wearing fly hats with nets on their faces, didnt take me long to figure out why and be jealous/desperate enough to want to mug them for it.

Aussie flies are ruthless, tough, street fighters and have an ability to get into your stomach without your consent.

johnnyx0

Full o' protein, mind....

asprilla

jad n rich

I have never found out why but brisbane, GC and SC dont have the into your eyes, ears, nose flies that most of australia has. As G says go out to Toowoomba and they soon start to appear

Of course you get the flies around food but not those bush flies that come in swarms of thousands.

Worst encounter with flies this year was Kiama, an absolute beauty spot in NSW, couldnt find a BBQ anywhere then found one solitary bbq, whacked some food on and I am not kidding there were thousands of flies on us the food, we literally ran back to the campervan, flies in hot pursuit. Someone on here living near kiama cracked up that we attempted to cook food outside

Melb has bad spells too, lived there in winter, returned one summer and even in the city they were hell. WA - didnt expect it to be good but VV bad.

Dorothy

Must remember to recommend the fly diet to the dude looking for high protein body building supplements then.