Friday, 13 July 2012

Boat trip

I had a lay in today, daddy was already up, but mummy was still sleeping so I decided to wake her by pretending to be a crocodile, don't think she appreciated it thou. We packed while the man made breakfast for us, which we had outside our room on a small terrace. After that it was another drive, this tine we stopped after about an hour and went to see a moonstone mine, which was really small but they seemed to get loads of moonstones which mummy liked especially the blue ones, next to the mine was a small cinnamon plantation and processing place where they made sticks and oil from the plants, it smelled really nice. The man then showed us how they make the stones shiny, on the way we saw a big lizard, daddy said it was a baby water monitor, the man then showed mummy some jewellery but she said that the man was too pushy and she didn't like that, so she didn't buy anything. We then had another drive and we stopped  at a big river, where we went on a boat to do a river safari, where we saw some full sized water monitor's, some sea eagles, lots of big birds, and men fishing, but we didn't see any crocodiles this made me sad as that's what I really wanted to see, mummy said that they were all having day sleeps, I'm not sure I believe that. But I did get to hold a baby monkey which cheered me up. We stopped off on a couple of the islands one had a man who live there alone and made all the cinnamon stuff like at the plantation, we also stopped at the temple island and looked around that, mummy and daddy walked around and chatted with a monk, while I played with the cats, then I got to have a go driving the boat which was fun, and I didn't crash, we then had to go back to Chaminda to drive to the next place. The next place turned out to be one of my favorite places in Sri Lanka, it was a turtle hatching place, where all the eggs are taken to protect them (until they hatch into turtles) they are let out into the sea when they are 3 days old, I loved all the little ones they must have been 100's, and they were all been released the following night. They also had some rescued big turtles, but I didn't like them so much, I even wanted to take a little one home but mummy and daddy said no. We then went to a lovely restaurant 'Aida' at Benota for lunch, it was on the banks of the big river and there was a man fishing and I went to watch him, he got a few and showed me but didn't listen when I said he should move near the boats as I saw loads of fish there. After lunch we went for another drive, I slept the whole way, when I woke we were at the last hotel of our holiday the 'Ivory Inn' at Mount Lavina, after settling in we went for a walk and explored the little town and had some dinner in a little cafe, I don't think they normally get non Sri Lankans in there it was full of local workers (which daddy says is a sign of a good cafe), but the boss loved us and we had a great meal and then it was time to go back to bed.
 
At the hotel
Neo - "I want to come back to Sri Lanka to see the turtles again"
Mummy - "What about the elephants?"

Neo - "They're OK, but I'm not fussed to see them again"








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