Swartkops aloe and muggies

Have aloe, will photograph.  That is the case with me when I find a flowering aloe somewhere in the wild.  With the aloes’ flowering season something of the past I will run out of pics soon, but seeing that I still have one or two, I’m posting one today.  This aloe is from the Flamingo Trail in the Zwartkops Nature Reserve and the little smudges above it isn’t from a dirty lens but thousands of little muggies (midges) swarming around us at one stage.