Sri Lanka Part 7
Good Lord! It is our very last day in Sri Lanka and by my calculations we have but one surf session left to squeeze in before getting a van to the airport. Que triste!
We've been down in a place called Midigama for the last 4 or 5 days and it has been wonderful.
We came to Sri Lanka on a surf trip really ... so we had visions of driving down the coast with our boards on the roof of a Tuk Tuk ... couple of T-shirts in a bag with nothing much else ... finding places that no-one else knew of... that sort of thing... modern day explorers if you will.
Hikkaduwa does not live up to this dream... it is full of surfers from all over the world all in their complete Billabong outfits with bleached blonde hair smoking endless weed and recounting endless dull surf tales. The main road is the scariest thing to walk along in the world. It is awful. Sorry Hikkaduwa but you suck.
Midigama on the other hand is exactly what we were hoping for. Too many surf spots to name and hardly anyone at all around. We surfed different spots each day and all were incredible and we stayed at a place called Ram's (pictured below) where the only thing we had to worry about was being at the large wooden table at 8 each evening for dinner (curry of course) with the other 20 or so tourists (let's say foreigners actually) that had had the sense to head 2 hours or so further down the coast from Hikkaduwa. Alex and I did not shower for 5 days. Who needs to when you live in the sea? (Well, we did after 5 days when both of us had formed dreads!).
I will complain for one second. Surfing powerful waves at powerful (serious) breaks is not easy when you have a near broken thumb and are missing a toe nail. That's it... I'm done.
Actually, wait. These annoying injuries meant that I had a wonderful time BUT could surf only half as much as I wanted to... and when I did I spent an awful lot of time bouncing off the sharp reef because I couldn't
That's getting dull now so I'll leave it.
When you are out surfing in Midigama all you see around you are: coconut trees, large white temples, the old train heading to Colombo, fishing boats, Tuk Tuks along the small but busy road, more coconut trees, turtles, sharp reef, islands, more coconut trees, huge thunder clouds and lightning followed 10 minutes later by sun etc... etc... etc...
Glorious.
We spent our days surfing, swimming (with mangoes like B'dos), up coconut trees, BBQ'ing fish, playing with dogs, surfing... (Alex pictured left, although you can hardly see the backside cutback he is nailing).
But now we are back to 100 people in the water, small waves and Hikkaduwa once again...
I think I'll leave it here! Off to the UK once again! (and that isn't such a bad prospect really)...
We've been down in a place called Midigama for the last 4 or 5 days and it has been wonderful.
We came to Sri Lanka on a surf trip really ... so we had visions of driving down the coast with our boards on the roof of a Tuk Tuk ... couple of T-shirts in a bag with nothing much else ... finding places that no-one else knew of... that sort of thing... modern day explorers if you will.
Hikkaduwa does not live up to this dream... it is full of surfers from all over the world all in their complete Billabong outfits with bleached blonde hair smoking endless weed and recounting endless dull surf tales. The main road is the scariest thing to walk along in the world. It is awful. Sorry Hikkaduwa but you suck.
Midigama on the other hand is exactly what we were hoping for. Too many surf spots to name and hardly anyone at all around. We surfed different spots each day and all were incredible and we stayed at a place called Ram's (pictured below) where the only thing we had to worry about was being at the large wooden table at 8 each evening for dinner (curry of course) with the other 20 or so tourists (let's say foreigners actually) that had had the sense to head 2 hours or so further down the coast from Hikkaduwa. Alex and I did not shower for 5 days. Who needs to when you live in the sea? (Well, we did after 5 days when both of us had formed dreads!).
I will complain for one second. Surfing powerful waves at powerful (serious) breaks is not easy when you have a near broken thumb and are missing a toe nail. That's it... I'm done.
Actually, wait. These annoying injuries meant that I had a wonderful time BUT could surf only half as much as I wanted to... and when I did I spent an awful lot of time bouncing off the sharp reef because I couldn't
That's getting dull now so I'll leave it.
When you are out surfing in Midigama all you see around you are: coconut trees, large white temples, the old train heading to Colombo, fishing boats, Tuk Tuks along the small but busy road, more coconut trees, turtles, sharp reef, islands, more coconut trees, huge thunder clouds and lightning followed 10 minutes later by sun etc... etc... etc...
Glorious.
We spent our days surfing, swimming (with mangoes like B'dos), up coconut trees, BBQ'ing fish, playing with dogs, surfing... (Alex pictured left, although you can hardly see the backside cutback he is nailing).But now we are back to 100 people in the water, small waves and Hikkaduwa once again...
I think I'll leave it here! Off to the UK once again! (and that isn't such a bad prospect really)...
posted by Alex at 9:00 AM
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