Dry Heat or Wet Heat

 As we travelled north people spoke in ominous tones about the wet heat. Supposedly wet heat is hotter than dry heat. 

As we drove North from Port Hedland to Broome the vegetation gradually got greener and and the trees grew larger and the heat got wetter. Soon there was water on the road and we started to see baobab trees.

The dry heat comes with flies, hundreds and hundreds of them. They are particularly fond of flying into your eyes nose and mouth. Yammy was not that bothered by them but they were driving me crazy. In Canarvon I had a doctor prescribe me an anti psychotic drug. It worked for the bugs but I found I couldn't drive faster than sixty kilometers an hour. 

In the North there are just a smattering of flies. But there are mosquitoes and a myriad assortment of biting insects. Pretty soon my varicose engorged legs were pitted with bug bites. Waving away flies was replaced with scratching bug bites. The scratching became so bad that when I was driving I would wear a pair of oven mitts . Unfortunately people were always trying to flag me down. They thought I was the pizza delivery guy.

After more than a week in the wet heat , I vote enthusiastically for the wet heat. There is green, thunderstorms, and baobab trees and almost no flies.




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