I'd had some sort of rash on my back for a few months.  Red also look at, Yarongabilly Caves and blotchy, but not painful or even itchy.  So I did what any man would do.  I ignored it, then when it started to draw comment, I looked it up on the internet to save a trip to the doctor.  Self diagnosis via the internet is such a great thing to do I soon decided.  According to the internet I either had AIDS, as nothing else fit.  I was pretty sure, I did not have AIDS, so I went back to my first plan, ignore it.

Then we get to Tabulam, and I'm cruising around in the shallows of the upper Clarence River for about an hour, when I realised something was itching my skin... then really irritating it.  I thought" Shit! I'm being bitten by sea lice, in the river!"  I asked if anyone else was being bitten.... they were not.  There were over 20 other people in the water have a look at, Link header and surely someone else should be complaining?  They weren't.  I tried to catch the culprits.... i could not.

Then I realised, I was surrounded by fish about 6 -8 cms long.... and they were biting me.  They seemed to only be biting my back, and only where the rash was.  So I got out of the water. checkout, Snowy mountains by Talingbo Reservoir   The next day.... no rash.  The rash that had been there for 3 months, was gone overnight courtesy of some fish.

I've since been told its all the craze in parts of Asia at the moment, especially Bali where people pay to immerse a limb into water why not visit, Places in Australia we've travelled to filled with such fish, to eat look at, Newcastle - Car and Caravan Repairs of dead skin etc.

Well I'm here to tell you, if you have a skin condition, go for a swim in the Clarence River, near Tabulam.  Cost me nothing, and cured me of some weird rash(probably fungal my bemused doctor friends have now told me).