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Abreojos flies

Chupacabra - 6-23-2014 at 07:36 AM

I'm gonna head down to Abreojos soon, never been there but I understand the flies are pretty bad this time of year.

Question: are they biters, or just a nuisance? Anyone had luck with citronella candles or anything like that to keep them at bay a bit?

chuckie - 6-23-2014 at 07:41 AM

YES

bajabuddha - 6-23-2014 at 07:52 AM

I can promise you, if you use citronella candles NOT ONE FLY will land on a single candle, GUARANTEED.

If they're bobo's, the little no-see-um biters, clear vanilla works wonders, and not only won't burn your eyes, but makes you smell nice and taste sweet to your honey. Any other kind of bug, just use orange-cap OFF spray, apply liberally and often. All the other stuff on the market is pretty much the same mix for more pesos with more advertising.

BooJumMan - 6-23-2014 at 08:04 AM

Last time I was there was in August a few years back. The entire ocean and beach was full of dead red jellyfish. After a few days of baking in the sun, the flys were everywhere and the breeze burned your nostrils with the scent of rotting jellyfish. It was heavy! haha

BajaRat - 6-23-2014 at 08:25 AM

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Originally posted by Chupacabra
I'm gonna head down to Abreojos soon, never been there but I understand the flies are pretty bad this time of year.

Question: are they biters, or just a nuisance? Anyone had luck with citronella candles or anything like that to keep them at bay a bit?

Yes, yes and yes. If your camping we prefer a screen/shade room for eating and taking a break from the insect action. We have had good and bad bug days along the Wild Coast.

Have fun and eat some oystiones for us :cool:

Hook - 6-23-2014 at 08:57 AM

There is a restauranteur over here who uses a mix of 1/4 Listerine mint mouthwash to 3/4 water in a plastic garden sprayer around his restaurant, when the flies get bad. I have been in there when he's done it and it does seem to send them packing.

Mexitron - 6-23-2014 at 10:46 AM

I've never seen flies so bad, and seems to get worse every time I go. A large screened tent/canopy or camper shell will work the best. Late afternoon seems to be the worst time---get in the water or in the tent! I've only seen one natural control---in 1997, during the epic El Nino, there was a bird that looked like a miniature duck only with a long sharp sandpiper type beak---he would walk up and down the beach eating flies all day long. I have a feeling it was drawn there by the warm air/water from south somewhere, maybe mainland. Never seen one since but I wish they would do some captive breeding and release a few hundred :lol:

woody with a view - 6-23-2014 at 11:03 AM

never had an issue there. enjoy!!! try wiping lemongrass on your exposed tender bits.

MMc - 6-23-2014 at 11:22 AM

I down a couple of weeks ago, They are there, keeping you camp clean really helps. Wash out the beer bottles with seawater don't spill stuff if you do shovel away from camp. I just get use to them too. They don't bit they are just everywhere. They seem to like to get out of the wind.

Chupacabra - 6-23-2014 at 11:30 AM

Cool, thanks for the responses.

One more question: are the flies mostly an Abreojos thing, or are they everywhere along that stretch...what about Punta Prieta and Asuncion to the north or at Campo Rene?

MMc - 6-23-2014 at 11:36 AM

There are less at those other places but they are there.
By the way the road from La bocana to Hipolito is not be graded took a couple of hours to do. You mileage may vary.

Skipjack Joe - 6-23-2014 at 02:07 PM

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Originally posted by MMc
I down a couple of weeks ago, They are there, keeping you camp clean really helps. Wash out the beer bottles with seawater don't spill stuff if you do shovel away from camp. I just get use to them too. They don't bit they are just everywhere. They seem to like to get out of the wind.

All of the above has been my experience at abreojos as well. They are not biting flies but a nuisance to some more than to others. If you are totally grossed out by flies then you may be frustrated here.

Ateo - 6-23-2014 at 02:41 PM

I didn't see any flies when I went to La Bocana and Asuncion 2 years ago. It's an Abre thing. Although, during that trip, the fly situation was mellow in Abre as well. We bought some special fly killer thing from Home Depot but never ended up using it. You add H2) to it and it stinks and attacks the flies away from you, supposedly.

Here's the report:

http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=61836&pag...

JohnMcfrog - 6-24-2014 at 06:42 PM

The flies are a part of the deal at Abre. I use swatters with both hands and thinking about using my size 13 feet/toes for a another line of attack! Bueno Suerte..Juanito

elgatoloco - 6-24-2014 at 07:08 PM

In the 90's we went down just about every year and camped on the bluff. The first year the flies were a downer. The second year my buddy Jimbo - RIP - brought down a small quiet generator, 200 feet of extension cord and an industrial type fan. We rigged the fan so it hung horizontal from an ez-up and set the generator way off from camp and fired the thing off and 4-5 people could sit under the fan and no flies. One afternoon the vigilantes did a drive by, stopped and looked shook there heads and gave us a 'loco gringo' look. We waved them over and offered up a seat and a cold adult beverage. They seemed to like the deal. Over the next week it seemed that half the town came out and checked out the setup. The next year we had 300 feet of extension cord and a slightly bigger fan.

Abreojos2.jpg - 46kB

Ateo - 6-24-2014 at 07:20 PM

sick shot gato.

Paulina - 6-24-2014 at 07:26 PM

Take a few fly swatters with you. I swatted them as we drove, waved the swatter out the window at folks sitting on their front porches who were waving them back at me. Friendly place, but not towards flies.

I'll share a little secret with you, when you take your siesta, prop the swatter up in your arm pit. The flies see it looming over you and are scared sh*tless. They will give you a wide berth as you snooze.

My baja dad Herman used to siesta with his flyswatter too, (on the chair to his right) but never believed me enough to try the arm pit trick.

Can't have enough swatters. I got a new electric racket zapper that I'm dying to test out this summer. I will not be siesta-ing with the zapper in my armpit, fyi.

P>*)))>{

woody with a view - 6-24-2014 at 07:43 PM

that is HI-larious..... :lol:

JohnMcfrog - 6-25-2014 at 05:25 AM

Great surf shot! Definitely going to try a big fan.

cj5orion - 6-25-2014 at 06:21 AM

lavendar scented cleaning.... "stuff",diluted with water...seems to work as well

Chupacabra - 6-25-2014 at 06:27 AM

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elgatoloco has attached this image:

I know that pic.

http://www.lajollasurf.org/

elgatoloco - 6-25-2014 at 01:57 PM

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Originally posted by Ateo
sick shot gato.

I took that photo of my late surf buddy Jimbo. We would camp/surf on a bluff that's now full of houses. This day we surfed our brains out and then headed into town to what I recall was the only little taco stand at the time for some grub and next thing I knew Jim was not at the table and I looked up to see him in the lineup right off what is now the malecon. Grabbed the camera and got a few snaps. He was a charger in the surf and in life and was unfortunately his undoing.

The first time we surfed Abreojos together we flew in from Natividad for the day. Good times.

RIP Jimbo.

Mexitron - 6-25-2014 at 02:22 PM

Yeah, those were the days when you could camp on the bluffs without gringo houses staring you down...there's still places further down to camp but the flies seem to get worse.

Bajahowodd - 6-25-2014 at 04:59 PM

They ought to rename the place Punta de Moscas. :lol:

elgatoloco - 6-25-2014 at 07:17 PM

Cerrar La Boca......... :biggrin:

Skipjack Joe - 6-26-2014 at 09:24 AM

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Originally posted by Mexitron

Yeah, those were the days when you could camp on the bluffs without gringo houses staring you down...

Amen to that.

I have some fine memories of coming down on christmas vacation and camping on the bluffs. Caught corbina with kastmasters right from the bluffs during morning high tides.

Then came back to this delightful place and there were the houses. Never been back since.

Feathers - 6-26-2014 at 09:36 AM

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Originally posted by Chupacabra
Cool, thanks for the responses.

One more question: are the flies mostly an Abreojos thing, or are they everywhere along that stretch...what about Punta Prieta and Asuncion to the north or at Campo Rene?

The flies are fairly scarce in La Bocana. I spend a lot of time outside and they are seldom bothersome…

Unless you go to the basurero after the Co-op has dumped their daily fish heads. Now that's a different story.

woody with a view - 6-26-2014 at 11:46 AM

hey Curt! MISS YA, BUDDY! :light:

Catch One For Curt!

http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=61584#pid7443...

brewer - 7-3-2014 at 06:53 AM

Just got back. Flies were terrible, but the wife and kids put up with it. Windy...

coolhand - 7-9-2014 at 11:54 PM

Don't camp at the point... chit blows downwind.... Leave the point to the sorry homeowners who got ripped off. There are great, if not better waves both north and south, and the beaches are 100xs more beautiful minus the flies and less wind. Drive or walk or even paddle to Razors if need be....

ehall - 7-10-2014 at 09:07 AM

Anyone try the fly spray made for horses? It is called piranha and works incredibly well at keeping horse flies off our horses. Any feed store should have it. Curious if it would work on smaller flies.