We had our breakfast in the rooftop restaurant at our hotel. It was from here that I shot a picture of another Buddha statue; this one across town, on a hillside and illuminated in the morning sun, with dark clouds way off in the background.
Once we’d checked out, we were on the road north to a place called Nilaveli. Dinesh, again with the good oil on where to go and what to see, had promised us it would be worth the trip. The beach, he said, was as close to an Aussie beach as we were likely to find in Sri Lanka. Fair enough. We haven’t seen any great beaches so far, so why not?
Somewhere along the way, there was ANOTHER Buddha statue, high on a hillside. This one painted all in gold.
Then, we stopped at a roadside fruit stand to pick up some fresh pineapple. As the guy was cutting it up, the photographer in me couldn’t help but notice how good the light was in his little wooden lean-to. So, a quick dash back to the car to grab the camera, a couple of shots of him doing his thing, a natural light portrait, and then we were on our way again.
We got to Nilaveli mid-afternoon, and it was quite hot. We found the beach; it lived up to all the promises, and we had a nice hour or so in the gentle waves. I’d shoot it in the morning.
