Grand Tourer ;)

Galle Light House

So since I tend to drive fast(according to thathi) he thought of letting me drive on the Sothern Highway the first highway in sri lanka and the Joke is “Finially the SL highway Minister can call himself the highway minister-Nissanka”lol any way we started early in the morning and reached the entry point at 0646 hours, and Started our drive along the highway 110 kmph was my maximum(that’s all the car could handle hehe) so I was pretty happy the speed limit was 100kmph, so I drove along the highway at a constant speed of 100kmph overtaking a few conservative drivers who chose to drive not at the top speed, and to be overtaken by the others, The landscape is quite a nice mainly with Rubber plantations and paddy fields which were bisected by the construction of the highway, But honestly Driving along it is not as interesting as I thought as all what I did was shift gears from four to five and visa versa, but the good thing is you get to Gall in 1 hour and 1 min, in pretty good comfort, We soon arrived in gall and took the left turn towards Unawatuna, I was warned by Niru that       

                                                                Unawatuna was in a state of “unrests” However thathi and I  

                                                                decided it’s fine let’s just go check it out.

Jungle Beach Unawatuna 

                                                         

Snorkeling in Unawatuna

So we did and we soon managed to talk to a boat dude who talked of the Corals and fish out in the yonder, so we were pretty much taken by his words and there we boarded what was one of the most terrible journeys I’ve been on, Looking down at the bottom of the glass boat made me sick instantaneously, and by the time we got to the spot where we were supposed to snorkel I was dizzy and feeling the motion sickness, but I managed myself off the boat and into the water I grabbed a life jacket cause I  was that bad, and I managed to swim with a bit of fish but I couldn’t enjoy it much as wobbling on the waves didn’t help the cause either, so after snorkelling for a little while I swam back to the boat where I puked L, thathi didn’t find it easy as well, he too was battered up by the dizzy boat ride, we soon came back to the beach where I managed to rest my head under the warm sun, we both did but thathi got up after a little while grabbed the snorkels and went snorkelling closer to the beach he waved signs of good fish so after he was done I too went into the sea and started snorkelling, Wow it was truly amazing even though I would still rate Nilawelli as the best and would never forget the first with Nissanka, This was pretty good too I mean I saw quite a number of fish and I loved it. 

I was really hungry so was thathi so then we took off to have lunch there we saw the Jungle Beach having gone there before I knew it would be nice so we drove ourselves to the Jungle beach it was just us and a couple of tourists and had the whole beach to our selves, it was a nice experience. After which we went up to the temple which gives you a bird eye view of the Gall town we saw the Gall Fort in the distance and there we decided to go there as well, The buildings inside Fort was so nice specially the once which were refurbished, we walked along the rampart and there we had a “hello king coconut” or better known as Thambili hehe, which was so refreshing.

it was time to say Good bye to Gall thathi suggested that we take the normal route back to Colombo as the sea and the sunset would be nice, and I yes I was happy as the highway was quite a boring ride( but I loved it too ), any way the way back was so fast, and the gear shifts and all the revving up when overtaking is way more cooler than on the highway, even though I had two close calls with the cops :P, I was going over a double line and they saw, I got a bit freaked out but thank God they didn’t pull me over, any way  it was so fast that we even missed a bathing spot which we planned on, but luckily we didn’t miss the sea turtle farm in kosgoda, there we saw sea turtles being helped to survive in the smallest ways.

Sri Lankan sun set

The sun was setting it was a bright yellow at first so we decided to just pull over, and watch the sun set, I managed to find a comfortable rock with a back rest where I gazed out into the ocean waiting till the sun gets dipped down in the horizon, the sun was so bright yet so clear it changed from yellow, bright yellow, orange and finally red it was indeed a treat to watch the sun set, and when the sun did dip itself for the night, thathi said “I hope you would enjoy many sunsets with the one God has planned for you” hehe infact that’s pretty much it, I’ve been thinking too while I saw it set lol. Any way with that we started our way back to our car and started our drive back, Soon darkness set in and I had to use lights and it was terrible I saw dozens and dozens of silhouetted figures running about on the road it was so difficult to drive, specially the cycles which didn’t even had a reflectors. So I thought its best if I pull over and give the wheel to my father, so we did and soon found ourselves at home where we sipped into one of ammi’s tasty iced coffee.

Grand tourer ;)
15.12.11 with thathi