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G'day David,
sounds like the family had a great time down there and a shame the weather wasn't the best for the whole
4 days.
Those sea lice apparently hate lavender, so try and get some lavender soap and wash the kid's and their bathers in that and repeat after each day in the water.
Maybe you could even try and use fresh lavender leaves and throw some in the washing.
Don't know how you treat the bites though...maybe use stingoes or one of the propriatary anti itch ointments if the itch is still bad, or just use some aloe vera on them.
Hope this helps,
Cheers,
Pete.
Just saw the pic....ouch!!
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Ooooh nice bream there. Shame about the missed ones.
I have no idea what is causing the dropped fish.... must be the full moon effect making them psycho.
Good effort in any case..You've gotta be happy with those three.
Cheers,
Pete.
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hi pete
great whiting
congrats on pb too went out this morn to show mate where to catch flatties in his tinny with sps
first hour zero then moved west of pipeclay where he picked his first flattieon plastic 45cm on a cosmic tomato [i think thats the right name] itried some gulp worms for zero
by the way we dipped the lures in gulp juice he ended up with 2 flatties me zero
anyway he was a very happy chappy
peter
Well done Peter and glad your mate managed a couple.
Pipeclay sure does produce when the conditions are right.
Yep, the alive juice has saved my fishless trips on more than one occasion now too.
I use one of those collapsible bait buckets you clip on your belt and 1/4 fill it with gulp juice and just dip the lure in it before each cast. Works well.
Cheers,
Pete.
Beauty effort there Pete, Im still waiting to get some Narra whiting
Give the flats a go with the yak opposite the caravan park...if you're wearing polaroids, you can see them darting around all over the place at the moment...Run out tide is best.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Nice fish...and they sure do fight abover their weight.!!
Cheers,
Pete.
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went to narra lake today, near the woolis bridge. got nothing, tried gulp alives in the 2' shrimp, poppers even smelly baits. the only main action was getting a very solid hook up to what i thought was a bream and he just sent me straight into the pylon
, oh well.Next weekend going to hit the flats with the SX 40s and might even see Pete.
steve
Bad luck there Steve...Don't give up on the lake though as there are heaps of fish in there...just a matter of finding them LOL
Give Pipeclay Point a go one day...a bit of a walk to get there but some nice flatties lurk up there and they take placcies well.
The flats almost never fail for whiting and give the poppers a shot..if not..pump some nearby nippers and try them.
Don't bother fishing near the entrance ATM as I got eaten alive by bloody toads late last week.
Cheers and may see you down there.
Pete.
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Global warming making fish hard of hearing
Sydney - Climate change is dulling the hearing of fish and making it more difficult for them to find a home, Australian researchers say. More carbon in the atmosphere means less calcium in the water and consequently poorer hearing in fish, who use hearing as much as sight to locate a habitat.
James Cook University researchers Monica Gagliano and Martial Depczynski says tropical fish on the Great Barrier Reef, off the east coast of Australia, are growing asymmetrical ears.
Increasing acidity has cut the calcium carbonate that fish need to grow healthy bones including ear bones, the researchers said. The higher acid levels makes it more difficult for fish to absorb calcium.
"If their hearing is compromised because they have asymmetry ... it's going to affect their ability to navigate back to the reef and they'll just get lost in the open ocean," Depczynski told Australia's ABC Radio.
Gagliano said that "ear bone asymmetry in the early life stages of reef fish interferes with their capacity to find and settle on coral reefs."
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Well done Pete - that 's a super sized Whiting - a real elbow slapper!! They can 'go' when they want to, eh?? They also like surecatch poppers being retrieved continuously!!!
:) That's the next form of fishing we want to see you doing!!! :)Cheerio
Roberta
Thanks Roberta...Yes, I have one of those and was going to give it a run today but the wind was picking
up in the lake and would have made life difficult.
I only had a short time today before I needed to be home, but next outing, i'll give the poppers a run over the flats.
Yeah Penguin...those bloody toads are like seagulls on a hot chip. Grrrrrr.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Nice whiting. Have you given up on the plastics mate ;-) hehehe
No, not at all....just that the whiting in the lake seem to go for live nippers more than artificials.
I've tried Alive bloodworms on them and they just turn their noses up at 'em. Go figure!
I think we might have to call you Neddie from now on (Neddie Seagoon)
Great boat name BTW.
Cheers,
Pete (AKA Lootentant Hern-Hern)
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Hit the lake at the turn of the tide today targeting whiting on the outgoing.
Pumped some nippers and they were a bit hard to find today (must have been away for Easter
)managed enough for a session as well as a few soldier crabs which I usually just leave alone, but thought I'd give them a shot to see what took a fancy to them.
First cast from the shore with the soldier and whack!! A big run across the flats and it managed to spit the hook.
I then waded out across the flats as the wind was picking up and wanted it at my back and cast out the second soldier and whack!! again...This time it was an even better fish and started to take drag on the Stradic..which I thought was odd as I had it on a fairly good drag setting.
I played this fella for about 3 minutes with it doing some nice runs and finally got it to the net and could see it was a nice fish.
It went 42cm and weighed 1.2 kilos cleaned, so a new PB for me in the lake.
It was really fat and had a huge head on it.
With that in the keeper net, I then used up the live nippers for countless little fellas, but no more thumpers.
Those pesky toads were out in force again today too stealing nippers as soon as the baits hit the drink...Geez i hate those things with a passion
Finally ran out of nippers and went home chuffed at a new PB.
The flats are teaming with whiting at the moment, but mostly little tikes...still fun to C&R.
Cheers,
Pete.
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to Little Jewgaffer..Hope you get some great fishing birthday presents.
Also a very
to four other members celebrating another year today:LyndsayJ(29), BuckWild(28), mpreston55(57)
Have a great day fellas
Cheers,
Pete.
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Not what you could call a Good Friday fishing, but at least you gave it a go.
It must have been pretty uncomfy in a small tinnie in open water and in the rain.
The maccas would have looked the goods for sure.
Better luck next outing.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Hi Arman,
Take a browse through This site as it may trigger some
names for your brother.
Cheers and happy naming.
Pete.
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yeah sounds good count me in for two people
Added to the list Mullo.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Ray leaps onto boat, stabs and kills woman
An eagle ray has leapt onto a boat off the Florida Keys and stabbed a woman with its barb, knocking her to the deck and killing her.
"It's a bizarre accident," said Jorge Pino, an agent with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
The woman and her family were aboard a boat today in the Atlantic Ocean, off the city of Marathon in the Florida Keys, he said.
"A large ray jumped out of the water and collided with the victim and somehow the barb penetrated some part of her body, which caused her to fall back and hit her head on some portion of the vessel," Pino said.
"We don't know exactly which one of those things caused her death."
Local media said the animal's barb had impaled the woman through the neck.
Eagle rays are common in warm or tropical waters and are often seen near coral reefs.
The spotted creatures can grow to more than 2.5 metres across and have two to six short, venomous barbs near the base of their whip-like tails, according to the Florida Museum of Natural History's website.
The rays often swim near the water's surface and can leap out, especially when pursued, but are generally shy of humans.
"All rays leap out of the water from time to time, but certainly to see one collide with a vessel is extremely unusual," Pino said.
Steve Irwin, the host of the Crocodile Hunter television show was killed by another type of ray while filming underwater on Australia's Great Barrier Reef in 2006.
He died when a stingray's barb pierced his heart.
The eagle ray in a boat off the Florida Keys.
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Stingray barb 'did not kill woman'
A STINGRAY leaped onto a boat off the Florida Keys and knocked a woman to the deck, killing her, wildlife investigators said.
"It's a bizarre accident," said Jorge Pino, an officer with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
The US woman and her family were aboard a boat in the Atlantic Ocean, off the city of Marathon in the Florida Keys, he said.
"A large ray jumped out of the water and collided with the victim," Mr Pino said.
The impact threw the woman backward and she hit her head on the vessel, he said.
Investigators initially said one of the animal's venomous barbs had stabbed her, but they later said there was no sign of a puncture.
An autopsy was pending.
"We believe she died as a result of the impact between herself and the spotted eagle ray," said Gabriella Ferraro, a spokeswoman for the wildlife commission.
The 35 kg ray and had a wingspan of 1.5 to 1.8 metres, Ms Ferraro said.
The boat was travelling about 40 km/h when the ray collided with the woman, killing both, she said.
Investigators identified the woman as Judy Kay Zagorski, 57, of Pigeon, Michigan.
Spotted eagle rays are common in warm or tropical waters and are often seen near coral reefs. They can grow to more than 2.5 metres across and have two to six short, venomous barbs near the base of their whip-like tails, according to the Florida Museum of Natural History's website.
The rays often swim near the surface and can leap out of the water, especially when pursued, but are generally shy of humans.
"All rays leap out of the water from time to time but certainly to see one collide with a vessel is extremely unusual," Mr Pino said.
In 2006, a spotted eagle ray leaped onto another boat in Florida waters off the Fort Lauderdale area and pierced the heart of an 81-year-old man with its barb. He survived.
Australia's Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin, was killed by another type of stingray while filming underwater on the Great Barrier Reef in 2006.
He died when a stingray's barb pierced his heart.
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Rabbits to the rescue of the reef
While rabbits continue to ravage Australia’s native landscapes, rabbit fish may help save large areas of the Great Barrier Reef from destruction.
The reason, say scientists, is the same in both cases – both rabbits and rabbit fish are efficient herbivores, capable of stripping an area of vegetation. However, in the case of the Reef, it is the vegetation that is the problem – and the rabbit fish, the answer.
“When a coral reef is weakened or damaged through human activity such as climate change or pollution or by a natural disaster like a cyclone, the coral will usually recover provided it is not choked by fast-growing marine algae,” explains Professor David Bellwood of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and James Cook University.
“The problem is that over the years we have fished down the populations of fish that normally feed on the young weed to such a degree that the weed is no longer kept in check, it can now smother the young corals and take over. This is called a phase-shift, and the chances of corals re-establishing afterwards are usually poor. If the weed takes over, you’ve lost your reef.”
Prof. Bellwood and fellow researcher Rebecca Fox have spent recent years running live experiments to see what happens when a reef turns to weed – and which fish, if any, are of help in restoring the coral.
“To our surprise and disappointment, the fish that usually ‘mow’ the reef – parrot fishes and surgeon fish - were of little help when it came to suppressing well established weedy growth. Most herbivores simply avoided the big weeds.
“Then, to our even greater surprise a fish we had never seen in this area before was observed grazing on the weed. The rabbit fish (Siganus canaliculatus), came out of nowhere and began to clear-fell the weed placed on the reef crest.”
The rabbit fish were caught on underwater videocams, in schools of up to 15 fish, grazing the crest, slopes and outer flats of the reef, and chomping away at more than ten times the rate of other weed-eaters.
“The rabbit fish is not a fish you tend to take a lot of notice of,” Prof. Bellwood explains. “Like its terrestrial counterpart, it is brown, bland and easily overlooked – but it could be very important when it comes to protecting the GBR.” “We hadn’t seen it previously at this site despite conducting over 100 visual censuses. This made its appearance in numbers sufficient to check the weedy growth all the more remarkable.”
However the team noticed the rabbit fish concentrated their weed-removal efforts on the crest of the reef and were less effective on the slopes and flats – a feeding preference that is yet to be explained.
In a previous study, an overgrown reef had been cleaned up by another unexpected intruder, a striped batfish.
Ms. Fox explained that the recovery of damaged reefs may depend on several different ‘guilds’ of fishes, with different feeding preferences, that will focus on particular parts of the reef and stages of the weed infestation.
For such an approach to work, however, all the various species have to be kept intact in the reef environment, ready to play their part in a salvage operation when it becomes necessary.
“In Australia these herbivore fish populations are still in fairly good shape, but around the world as the big predators are fished out, local fishermen are targetting the herbivores. In Hawaii, the Caribbean, Indonesia, Micronesia and French Polynesia there are reports of serious declines in herbivore numbers of up to 90 per cent.
“By killing them, we may be unwittingly eliminating the very thing which enables coral reefs to bounce back from the sort of shocks which human activity exposes them to.”
Prof. Bellwood says that one of the lessons from the video study is that obscure fish species may play a critical role in the survival and maintenance of coral ecosystems, and should not be overlooked. They are a key part of the resilience of the whole reef system.
“On land the rabbit is a major headache, but in the sea the rabbit fish may be an important factor in helping to keep the world’s number one tourist attraction in good shape,” he says.
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Cyclone of the deep sits off Sydney
The marine equivalent of a cyclone is sitting off Sydney's coast, causing a massive whirlpool which is turning the ocean green and spewing chilly water towards beaches.
A 200 kilometre-wide cyclonic eddy has pulled the sea's surface down by 70 centimetres and sucked cold deep ocean water onto Australia's eastern continental shelf.
The whirlpool is 1000 metres deep, reaching the ocean floor, CSIRO oceanographers say.
The centre is 100 kilometres off the coast and could stay there for several months.
Satellites can measure the drop in ocean surface caused by the eddy's pull, clearly showing how it is pushing aside the powerful East Australian Current running off our coast.
Another eddy of similar proportions is sitting further off the coast.
The eddies were like underwater cyclones, and the latitude of the coast near Sydney put it right in the marine cyclone belt, CSIRO oceanographer David Griffin said.
"This eddy is a particularly strong one - it's caused cold water to slop up onto the continental shelf and in places that water's available to come to the surface," he said.
"It's not happening right now off Sydney, but earlier this summer people will recall very cold beach temperatures - that was associated with the early phase of this eddy.
"It doesn't seem to be impacting beach temperatures at the moment, but that doesn't mean it won't happen again."
A run of warm water temperatures last September was due to an eddy spinning the other way, Dr Griffin said.
He said the current cyclonic eddy could chill water at the edge of the continental shelf from 18 degrees to 14 degrees.
"It has a big impact on ocean ecology - the cold water coming up has a lot of nutrients and when that's combined with sun, the phytoplankton grows like crazy," he said.
"That's why the water goes green, you can see that from a boat."
Steady eddy spares bathers big chill
IT IS 150 kilometres wide, rotating, and lies just off Sydney.
Scientists say a giant ocean eddy swirling in the Tasman Sea is compelling evidence that the ocean is not the constant, unchanging water mass it has long appeared.
A water version of an atmospheric cyclone, the eddy formed near Lord Howe Island in August and drifted east until Christmas when it stopped off NSW's continental shelf.
Rotating clockwise every 10 days, its western edge is now 80 kilometres east of Sydney. At its centre, 150 kilometres offshore, the ocean level is a metre below the surrounding Tasman Sea. Its rotation dredges up cold water from 500 metres below.
The existence of such eddies so close to Sydney was unknown before the 1990s, David Griffin, a CSIRO oceanographer, said yesterday. Fishermen and yachtsmen knew their ships were drifting in strong currents. "We knew things were happening that were making big changes to ocean temperatures," he said.
But until the development of satellite technology dedicated to monitoring ocean levels, the link with eddies was a mystery.
After reviewing data collected over the past 15 years, Dr Griffin said it now seemed the eddies were common. "It seems in most years we get one."
A giant eddy which reached the NSW coast in January last year sent water temperatures plunging six degrees. "It ruined a lot of summer holidays," he said.
The latest eddy, "as big as Tasmania" at its peak last month, is unlikely to bother swimmers. It is on the wane and "just spinning in place".
Yet another, even more powerful system 250 kilometres wide has now formed between Lord Howe Island and northern NSW.
The sea covers four-fifths of the world, and plays a vital role in driving the weather. But Dr Griffin said there was a lot to learn about the impact of eddies.
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Geez Craig...some highlights and lowlights there for sure.
That big fella would have been nice to see alongside and tagged but not to be.
Can't wait to see the pics of the fish that did cop a tag.
Well done.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Bad luck Slinky...at least you had one on the end of the line for a while...better than me.
Hope you get one boatside one day, as do I.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Rescued fishermen released from hospital
Two NSW south coast men found clinging to their overturned catamaran after a 34-hour ordeal at sea have been discharged from hospital.
A fishing trawler found the missing men about 2.15pm (AEDT) Sunday, clinging to their overturned craft approximately five nautical miles east of Burrill Lake, near Ulladulla.
The men, aged 45 and 40, had set off on a fishing trip from Kiama about 4am on Saturday.
They were Josif Necovski, from Barrack Heights, and Troy Veljanovski, of Warilla, News Limited reported.
A spokeswoman for Wollongong Hospital, where the men were airlifted on Monday, said they had been discharged just before midday.
However, she could not disclose any more information about them.
"As of last night and this morning they were not keen to talk to any media nor for anything to be released other than they are in a stable condition," she said.
"The fact that they've been discharged, that's a good thing."
Earlier, a man who helped rescue the two fishermen said they would not have survived another day in open seas.
Rocky Pirello, captain of the trawler that picked up the men, said it was unlikely they could have survived much longer.
"I don't think they would have lasted the next night, I don't think they would have lasted another 24 hours," Mr Pirello told the Nine Network.
He said the boat had been capsized by a freak wave and had been drifting all night.
"They (the fishermen) told me that they just got a freak wave about 11 o'clock and that was it and then they were drifting all night."
He said the men were very tired and emotional.
"They were very emotional, they were sunburnt, they were just real tired."
In a similar incident last month the skipper of a prawn trawler died after his vessel sank off the NSW north coast.
Two deckhands on board the vessel survived, one after spending 30 hours in open ocean, and another after swimming 12 hours to a beach near Byron Bay.
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Two fishermen survive 34 hours at sea
Police say they've found two men .. clinging to their overturned
catamaran .. after 34 hours lost at sea off the New South Wales
south coast.
They'd left Kiama about four o'clock (AEDT) yesterday morning to
go fishing .. and worried relatives alerted police when they hadn't
returned by eight this morning.
After a full-scale search was launched .. the men were found by
a trawler at about 2.15 pm .. clinging to their overturned craft
approximately five nautical miles east of Burrill Lake.
It's rescued the pair and is towing the stricken vessel to
Ulladulla.
The men are expected to be taken to hospital on arrival.
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Prayers answered as men survive 34 hours at sea
wo fishermen have survived 34 hours at sea after a freak wave capsized their boat off the South Coast.
Relatives raised the alarm yesterday morning after the men failed to return home.
Helicopters searched an 1430 square mile area from Kiama south to Bawley Point.
The men, aged 40 and 45, were found in the early afternoon clinging to their overturned boat off Burrill Lake. A trawler rescued the men and towed the boat to Ulladulla.
Rescuer Rocky Pirello said the men were in shock when they were found, approximately five nautical miles east of Burrill Lake.
The trawler picked them up and towed the 4.5m catamaran to Ulladulla.
"They were in shock praying to God, waving their hands in the air," he told the Seven Network.
"But they weren't too bad."
He told the Nine Network the men were very tired and emotional.
"They were very emotional, they were sunburnt, they were just real tired."
Terry Campion, of the Royal Volunteer Coast Patrol, said the men appeared to be okay after their ordeal.
"By all reports they are lucid, able to hold a ... conversation," he told the Seven Network last night.
"They said that they were hit by a freak wave, but in the end they were totally capsized in the ocean."
The pair were flown to Wollongong Hospital for medical treatment.
Last month, two crewmen from a Yamba prawn trawler that capsized off the NSW North Coast survived because one of the men swam 12 kilometres to shore.
The second man was rescued after waiting in the water for 30 hours. However, the skipper of the vessel died.
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What a great blurter for the little fella!
Goes to show you that whenever you go to do something else while fishing...it's sure
to get the fish biting.
That's a stonker trevor in anyone's language.
Well done to the youngun.
Cheers,
Pete.
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It's gotta be SPOT X
Om Swastiastu
Good luck with the local fishing Swordies.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Sink or swim: eight fish who guard the health of millions
THEY are not angel fish, but they are Sydney's guardian angels.
In a small brick shed in the Southern Highlands eight tiny fish stand guard, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, over the water flowing to more than 4 million people.
Like the canaries that once sniffed the air in coal mines, the Australian rainbow fish are living proof that the city's water is safe.
If they don't like what they are swimming in, they have the power to shut down much of Sydney's supply system.
Although the Sydney Catchment Authority routinely tests for a wide range of impurities, the checks only guarantee water quality at the moment they are conducted.
Khanittha Poonbua, a project engineer with the authority, said the the three centimetre fish provided continuous evidence that all is well.
Their high-tech aquarium looks more like an automatic teller machine, or a space-age oven. Each lives in its own compartment, little bigger than a compact digital camera.
Every minute a litre of water is pumped into the testing station at Broughtons Pass, near Appin. "We watch how they react, how they behave," Ms Poonbua said.
Electrodes sense "bioelectronic signals" emitted whenever the fish inhale through their gills. The information is fed into a computer programmed to recognise their normal respiration rates.
A screen displays the information. If the computer ever detects that at least five fish - a majority of those on guard - are breathing abnormally and are in distress, it will automatically trigger an alarm and order gates to close, shutting off the flow in canals carrying water to Sydney.
"The fish," Carl Broockmann, the authority's projects delivery manager, said, "have a big responsibility. They are our front line of defence. They won't tell us what is wrong, but they will tell us something is wrong."
So the alarm will also cause a water sample to be collected for engineers to analyse and identify the problem.
Two of the fish monitoring stations are now testing water flowing to Sydney via open canals from the Avon, Cataract, Cordeaux and Nepean dams which supply a fifth of Sydney's needs.
With public roads crossing the catchments and canals, a fuel spill from a road accident, a sewage overflow or even a terrorist attack could contaminate the water.
Warragamba Dam's water, fed to Sydney via pipes, is considered less of a risk.
Every two weeks the fish, working under the Animal Care and Ethics Committee's approval, are exchanged and given a holiday in a conventional glass aquarium.
Fortunately, Mr Broockmann said, the only alarms triggered by the fish have been caused by technical glitches, such as electrical faults and pump failures.
congrats on pb too 
, oh well.
:) That's the next form of fishing we want to see you doing!!! 
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to Little Jewgaffer..Hope you get some great fishing birthday presents.
They Were Biteing At Greenwell Point
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The lavender is a preventive rather than a treatment once bitten.
Good for next time down there but whatever works for the itch is
good now.
If it gets worse...better go see the Doc.
Hope the family gets better fast.
Cheers,
Pete.