try starting to take vitamin b-1 a couple weeks before you go. i have heard that the skeeters are turned off by what it does to your body chemistry. also avons skin so soft products work but not near as well as deet. in any case you will smell good and have soft skin. living on the texas gulf coast i have tried everything. i would ask the locals. they have a remedy for everything and there is a tree bark that they use.
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