Raditha’s Photos

The drastic effect of sea erosion. These stumps were once coconut trees that stood above the water line. The tsunami didn’t help matters either. Part of the reason that the south coast suffers such severe erosion is because of the illegal coral mining that is carried out. Coral is used to make lime used in mortar and plaster

No doubt the architect who designed this house in Galle and delusions of winning the ugliest house contest

A cliche photograph: a tropical beach with coconut trees swaying slowly in the gentle breeze.
The beach is at Ahangama, on the south coast of Sri Lanka, close to Galle

Watering point, Roomassala (Buena Vista), Unawatuna

This point makes up the outer edge of the bay of Galle. At the other end lies the ancient dutch fort. Strictly speaking the fort isn’t the edge of the bay but it appears to be so. The fort is a man made construction where there was once just a pile of rocks. in the old days the ships came to the watering point for water. The old light house is over my shoulder. Further down the road, next to the Buena Vista school, lies the old British Cemetery now sadly neglected