on the road --- milford sound to te anu (south island new zealand) 2010
sandflies do definitely not make it easy to enjoy the beauty of new zealand's south island, as there are millions of them and they do bite you badly if they just get the possibility to...
a maori legend says, that when god tu-te-raki-whanoa just finished creating the stunning landscape of the fjordland (which is one of the most amazing landscapes on the world), it was so unbelieveable stunning, that it stopped people from working. instead, they where standing around, gazing at the amazing landscape, when goddess hinenuitepo got really angry with them, because being so unproductiv. to get them moving, she created the sandflies and made those tiny little monsters bite them.