Aline eagerly wanted to see fishermen in Sri Lanka, which is a very unique and traditional way of fishing out of the world. Searching for them became the first mission of day 2. Although without a particular spot made our 1 hour of driving vain. Ridma and Mami are locals, they asked and drove around, yet we didn't find our luck. When we were about to give up, 5 or 6 fishers holding fishing stuff sticking to the wood near the sea showed up! We got off, there was already a group of Dutch tourists stopped by taking photos.
While a local guy directly came up to prevent us from taking photos, asking for paying. Later we realized that downside of here, like sometimes also in China, is that there are always foreigner prices two or three times the local prices. I sneakily took one picture with a lower quality though ;)
King coconuts are different from green ones in many ways apart from being more expensive. These golden fruits look not only Royal in color, but contain substantial juice with little flesh, opposed to green ones. They are connected to each other, even though the size of each is almost as huge as a basketball.
Coral seeing was in the plan, while snorkling was not. However, it definitely made my whole journey. We took some fishermen's boat with a glass on the boat bottom, so that we were able to see some corals. However, the view was limited, and the number of coral had been hugely decreased after Tsunami 2004. Indeed, apart from some small groups of corals, the rest are grey bottom beyond green and blue shallow sea. Soon after, however, a big turtle showed up! We tried to follow it with the boat. Aline gave the xiao yi water proof camera to the fisherman to take the photo of the turtle. We got some amazing ones! The ambition didn't stop here. We decided to go down snorkling to play around with turtles ourselves! It was the first time of my life to swim in the sea (although with my life jacket) and to be so close to turtles and sea fish...thus began my sea journery.
Coral seeing was in the plan, while snorkling was not. However, it definitely made my whole journey. We took some fishermen's boat with a glass on the boat bottom, so that we were able to see some corals. However, the view was limited, and the number of coral had been hugely decreased after Tsunami 2004. Indeed, apart from some small groups of corals, the rest are grey bottom beyond green and blue shallow sea. Soon after, however, a big turtle showed up! We tried to follow it with the boat. Aline gave the xiao yi water proof camera to the fisherman to take the photo of the turtle. We got some amazing ones! The ambition didn't stop here. We decided to go down snorkling to play around with turtles ourselves! It was the first time of my life to swim in the sea (although with my life jacket) and to be so close to turtles and sea fish...thus began my sea journery.
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