Farewell Sri lanka

A few pics from our early morning beach walk yesterday .....

These narrow fishing boats (powered by an outboard motor) come into shore at a great rate of knots - but there's no jetty or mooring point here. The boats have to be physically lifted up onto the beach before the day's catch can be unloaded. 

It's hard work, inch by inch  ...........

But it looks like a good day's catch .....

It's been a perfect end to a fabulous holiday to have a few nights here on the beach at Hikkaduwa. It's like Kuta Beach in Bali must have been 30 years ago, but no touts, no traffic jams and not too many Australians either. No doubt the beautiful Villa 46 with its smiling, well trained staff has made it extra special for us here too.

We fly out of Colombo at 12.20am tonight and get back to Canberra a bit before 7.00pm tomorrow EAST. The flight home after a holiday is never something to look forward to but we'll take some wonderful memories of this holiday back with us.