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The perils of travelling:
Hello all.... just wanted to let you all know what I've been going through, now its all sorted.....
I think I got attacked by bed bugs!!! Yuk!!! Been so embarrassed and fed up, as ever since we went on the boat I've had these horrible bite marks (like mossie bites - red and round) on my arm; and I just thought it was mosquito bites, until someone said they looked like bed bug bites as they were sort of in a line! I didnt think anything more of it until after the first night on Fraser Island I woke up and I had bite marks all over my legs too! So have been itching like crazy, but no one else seems to have been affected (ie Beth - which is really annoying!) but then I met some girls who had also stayed at Palace in Hervey Bay before going to Fraser and they had been bitten there - so I think I got bitten again when I sat on the sofa at Palace.
Anyway, got here to the YHA - Halse Lodge - in Noosa and they have been so helpful and friendly - so I've tumbled dried all my clothes (the heat kills bugs if they are in your clothes etc) and washed my rucksack and am just waiting for it to dry before I check out (and head to the beach, woo hoo) and I feel so much happier! Havent had any new bite marks appear, so I think they have (fingers crossed) all gone now. Phew!!!
Just got to wait for the marks to go now! But I have armed myself with bug spray and odourless garlic pills and vitamin B1 tablets as they are supposed to stop you getting bitten by mossies and maybe sandflies (which the chemist said my bites could have possibly come from - so maybe it was all the sand and not bed bugs? I'll never know!) or any other bugs!!??!!
Off to Brisbane later (wish we could stay in Noosa longer!)!
Bye for now
xxxx xxxx
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