Below, a sea turtle, refusing to pose.
There are sea turtles a-roaming in the turquoise waters we’ve been swimming in every day. We’ve watched them rolling in the shallows, and have glimpsed them out in the deep. At lunch one day, waiting for our rotti to be kottu’d, we spotted a meter-long, fat legged, massive-tailed komodo dragon (or possibly monitor lizard?) ambling along the roadside. Expectant of noodle-like vittles instead of large reptile appearances, we sadly did not have our camera to capture its sizable self. Later that evening, while sitting on our patio, a ferret-like creature with a very long and luxuriant tail scrambled up our palm tree. What was it? Dunno. But it was wild, man!
But first, a quick low down on the local eats.
Above, Roti- manifested as a burrito like square, filled with spicy fish. With Kottu Roti.
Above, Kottu Roti, Roti diced up with onions spices, and your choice of protein. If you are lucky you get curry sauce with it.
Moving on further south to the bottom edge of this teardrop-shaped island, we stumbled upon a wild peacock while arranging to go whale watching.
Blue whales, humpback and sperm whales are known to migrate along a shelf not far from the town of Mirissa about this time of year. We managed to glimpse a few sperm whales, who obliged us only briefly before getting annoyed by our motors and deep sixing it (word is, sperm whales can hold their breath for an hour, so they can majorly snub you). We were more warmly met by dozens and dozens of dolphins who enjoyed surfing along the bow of our boat, occasionally turning sidewise to glance up at us before shooting off again in a flurry of high pitched squeakings. There were several mother and wee dolphin pairings, which was super cute, and the water was so clear that I was able to capture on video some of their amazing grace and speed underwater. Video coming soon, but here's a pic nonetheless.
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