Wednesday, 6th February, 2019
Today we did not have an alarm to wake us up, however I was up early thinking I would be able to see the sunrise as we are on the eastern coast. Alas the sun rose on the right hand side of the beach behind our resort and I could not see it properly so I went back to bed…….
By the time we woke up properly the sun was quite high in the sky and it was shining brightly. We were out on our verandah just watching the waves as it was quite blustery this morning – the red flags were fluttering widely in the wind so no way would we get into the water.
On our way to breakfast, we were made aware that a crocodile was lying along the water embankment just basking in the sun. We immediately grabbed our cameras to shoot some pictures – this croc was really huge – but he just lay there, most probably debating with himself whether we would go in for a dip or not! Now we understood why there was fencing along the waterways in the garden and park …….
Breakfast at the Amethyst Resort was a very pleasant experience – we both chose the Sri Lankan breakfast with coconut and rice flour roti, scrambled egg with herbs, fresh papaya juice (in a jam jar!), fresh fruit platter and a coconut sambal spread.
When we went back to our bungalow, the bedroom was already cleaned and bed made up – what really was so attentive was that room boy had strewn flower petals on our bed – so sweet!
After breakfast, the pool boy brought us two sun beds and towels on the beach in front of our bungalow – oh what a luxury! Anyway as we had eaten such a big breakfast, we decided first to go on a walk along the beach – without knowing it we walked some 4.5km – and when we got back we decided to take a dip in the ocean. For me, the waves were quite high but Gerry assured me that they were not dangerous……
It was an easy morning spent on the beach but when it got hot, we moved our sun beds under the palm trees and in no time we both fell asleep!
Between swimming in the pool, making ourselves cup of teas, reading, catching up with our social media and lying around, we got through our leisure day…… it was time to get ready fo dinner at the hotel and we were quite ravenous. We were the first guests to come to dinner but apparently there were only a few of us staying over. Gerry has his Sri Lankan beer – Lion and then ordered grilled swordfish while I ordered a glass of mango lassie and the typical Sri Lankan rice and curry with chicken and we even had dessert – of course vanilla ice cream for Gerry while I tried the Sri Lankan buffalo curd with honey – just heavenly!!
Back in our room, we organized our stuff and packed our luggage as tomorrow will be an early start and Indika would be coming to pick us up at 8am.
ps 8February, finally we get onto the Wi-Fi so I can do some posting……
