28th December
Planting trees then visiting Iresha in a fishing village.
This fisherman took us on a little ride into the bay by the lighthouse to show us the big fish.
Planting trees then visiting Iresha in a fishing village.
Iresha once lived in Anula Wijerama Girls' Home where I spent my gap year teaching English.
Now she lives close to the sea and has two daughters. Her husband is a fisherman.
The boys and girls in the neighbourhood took me for a walk - we clambered over rocks and bathed in rock pools, caught baby fish.
The boys wanted to keep the fish and take them home.
They are very resourceful - the check nice looking, cosmetic plastic tubes for contents worth taking home and they use a scrap of old netting to catch fish and old bottles for storing them. Plastic is just another resource and it seems like it is part of nature for them. I suppose it has always been part of their environment as they grew up. Fish/bottles/fruit - all there to be used and thrown away when you are finished with them.
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