Day 20 Galle 15 August

Planned lazy day, as we near the end, we are tired. The day breaks with less heat and rain showers all day. It seems mostly the rain hits when we are completely away from any cover! Can’t get any wetter than wet! 

Sri Lankan breaky of poppers, dahl, coconut samba and fresh fruit salad washed down with fresh ambarella juice.

Quick walk to bus depot, interrupted by frequent “no thanks” to the ever eager tuk tuk drivers. We manage to catch a bus in the right direction! Of course when we stop it is sunshine only briefly before it pours. We hide under a tree, eventually realising that there is no choice but get wet.

 The tuk tuk drivers can’t figure us out. 

We check out the beach: nice but can’t see the flags so miss out on swim. 

See the stilts sans fisherman, though they see us and quickly dress up and rush out of their tent. It is raining pretty heavily, so they are not going out to the stilts unless there is money to be made. Sad that.....

The stilt fisherman are just that. They have stilts that are buried deep into the sand and at high tide can be found perched precariously on their stilt, like storks waiting to catch their fish.

These are steeped in tradition as the stilts positions are passed down from father to son and were highly sort after.

It seems now sadly these are nothing more than a tourist attraction and photos can be taken for a price ( unless your a littl bit sneaky, we didn’t take photos with the chaps on the stilts tho. )

We seek a place to watch the sea and weather with a coffee, but this eludes us here. 

We hop back on a bus to the fort where we know we can get a coffee. Even a view too.

Dinner tonight will be close by as we really area bit plum tuckered.