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Here are some photos from Common Sense and Whiskey, chapter 9, Sri Lanka. This visit happened in 1999. You can buy professional prints of most of these photos in the Sri Lanka Gallery. You can buy Common Sense and Whiskey on Amazon.com, or by clicking here.
Or, go back to Chapter 8: Guangxi Province, China, or on to Chapter 10: Madagascar
Sheldon, a slight fellow, just chest high, showed me his catch, in a crate, a few gross of five or six inch mackerels. He took me to meet all the others and see their catches, too. Here's a typical catch.
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He led me to his house, just alongside and between a couple of beach hotels, shoreside from the road, among a sprawl of a dozen thatch huts. Sheldon built it himself. It was before the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami and I don’t know if it, or Sheldon and his family, are there anymore.
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All these elephants had become separated from their families in the national parks or in the wild; Maybe their families were shot for their tusks, for example. One had his right front foot blown off by a land mine.
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At Kasgoda beach, the surf crashed hard forty meters away. I rented a fridge for $3 a day and six Heinekens were in there cooling. The sea sounded a dull roar, and palm fronds caused a wind- whipped tempest. Occasionally a manic low black cloud raked the manicured lawn with water-fire. The earth was vividly, furiously alive.
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