May (the 2020 Quarantine End Soon) Scavenger Hunt

[Lejays17]

... It reminds me of holidays in the Outback, where the only light is from the fire and the Milky Way is shown in all its glory.  Stunning.

Ooo, that sounds lovely.  What about bugs?  There were mercifully (and strangely?) no mozzies that night.  I'm thankful for a big yard to do stuff like this in and that we have relatively little light pollution.  The house blocks the driveway light pretty well, but that light on the trees shows up in long ex-posures 

Not really any bugs at night that I recall - there’s not enough standing / stagnant water to breed mozzies out there.
Flies though - one of the trips was terrible for them for some reason.  There were some mornings we had to eat brekkie inside the tents so the flies didn’t enthusiastically drown them self in the ceareal bowl  
But the vast areas of empty space make up for those small annoyances.  I didn’t realise how lucky I was as a kid being carted all over Australia and seeing so much of it.  I haven’t been up to the top of the pointy bit of Queensland, but if you point to anywhere else in Oz, I’ve probably been within 1000km of it at some time.  (And yes, 1000km sounds like a long way, but it’s relative to how big the country actually is).