This is a long overdue post. But what can I say, I have been busy with assignments and exams. Before I left for uni however, I was fortunate enough to make a trip down to the Yala National Park. It was a spontaneous trip. We had just hopped off a boat (which we had used [...]
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11 Dec
Cheese and Dolphins
Last week I went Whale Watching with some people from office. Now one of the cool things about this was that we stayed at the Lighthouse Hotel in Galle, and boy is that a fancy hotel! Now I remember the first time that I went to that hotel. It was used as a bathroom pit-stop [...]
10 Nov
Indian Short-nosed Fruit Bats
Right next to the gate at home is a Na Tree (Mesua Nagassarium) or in simple English an Iron Wood tree. You maybe wondering why I start off by mentioning this tree, well a few days ago I was looking into its leafy depths when I was confronted with five brown pairs of eyes looking [...]
21 Aug
my new PETS
Well I think you have heard the the tale of the Siamese fighting fish, and well today my dad and I have decided to buy two, and breed them. So tomorrow my dad and I shall go and buy two Siamese fighting fish. If you wanted to know why Fifi was fighting with the other fish, [...]
21 Aug
The sad “tail” of Fifi the Siamese fighting fish
Last week Ammi, my uncle, Minkrow, Caffeine (my other cousin – by the way cousin do you recognise your new screen name?) and I decided to go see our aunt and uncle and their two year old daughter Flicka. Well, Flicka loves fish. So we all decided to drive by Ananda’s Aquarium. Once we got [...]
21 Aug
Ritigala forest reserve
There again we set of on another adventure Minkrow and I and others, and again Tigris did not come (sigh). You dont even get leeches there, its the dry zone.
Anyway it is another beautiful and peaceful place. It’s filled with trees and caves and full of animals, but something was wrong the butterfly which i [...]
13 Aug
Morapitiya Forest Reserve
Minkrow and I went to the Morapitiya Forest Reserve. Sadly Tigris could not come because of her fear of leeches. Morapitiya is in the wet zone in the West of Sri lanka.
It was a lot of fun. My goal there was to keep track of what butterflies I saw and identify them, so I did.
We went [...]
1 Aug
Butterflies of Sri Lanka
There are many butterflies in Sri Lanka. Some are common some are rare, some are small some are big and some are VERY big. Some common butterflies are the:
Common Crow
Common Tiger
Plain Tiger
Common Mormon
Common Palmfly
Jezebel
Common Grass Yellow
Lemon Migrant
Some of the rare ones are the:
Gaudy Baron
Crimson Tip
The biggest butterfly in Sri lanka is the [...]
