Resin

Jeremy has gone all Ray Mears on me harvesting chunks of pine resin to make smudge pots to ward off mosquito hordes. Given the way this stuff burns I wouldn't like to see a pine forest going up from close quarters.

The resin burns with an aroma of pine and a dark sooty smoke that the mozzies run from at top speed.

Today has been un eventful with lots of walking along long, hot, pine forested roads and very little contact with people until later in the evening. Last evening we camped near to a cemetery in Losse. A nearby building had what I calculated to be approximately three hundred and eighty kilowatts of solar panel collectors on the roof. The sunshine here is big business. There was a field of the most beautiful wild flowers all of purple, white and yellow that made a lovely sight first thing.

The forests are dotted with big reservoirs or tanks of water for the use of fire personell in case of emergency. One we saw was a huge green bag in a fenced area.