Drive South

This is one of the traditional multi day fishing boats at Blue Star Marine. More about this later after I study the design.
The beach is very nice with tall palm trees everywhere the only down side to the beach is that it is monsoon season and the surf is constant 4 to 6 foot chop morning noon and night, so enjoying the beach is not the best idea. Nearby on the beach is the Pegasus resort where there are Europeans, that is where I hang out when not working days.
Last Wednesday Ishad took me on a drive south of Colombo to Bentotta, this was familiar as Galle Road was the road I took back and fourth while visiting the minister. Near Bentotta there is a natural barrier to the sea a couple hundred yards off shore with inlets to the sea spaced about 1/8 mile apart, sort of an inter coastal waterway. On the barrier strip there are more Palm trees. Within the breaker islands it is nice and calm.

This is a post card setting; especially at sunset there is nothing more gorgeous on earth.
On the way we stopped for coconut water from one of the coconut and fruit stands, I had Palu, a delicious fruit looking like a cross between a plum and an apple with a skin twice as thick as an orange. You squeeze the fruit then peel the top half of f when the skin breaks from squeezing. The inside looks like garlic cloves, but is soft like jelly. You pluck out the lobes and eat, they taste like candy. But the broken lobes look like a broken egg, not appetizing, but you forget that because it tastes so good. Then we had a fruit called Rambutan that looks like a Kumquat covered in long rubber thorns, this too you tear open and the inside tastes like candy. I think I will smuggle some of these exotic fruits back to Miami and try to grow them, the climate here is identical to Miami.