Transporting a petrol/kerosene powered water pump to the field.
The water-pump in action pumping water from a deep well.
Directing the water to each section of the onion field.
Outrigger canoe, Kallady, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka. Almost all of the photographs were taken by the owner of this blog and are his property.Click on each picture below to see an enlarged view.
Showing posts with label Alupola waterfalls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alupola waterfalls. Show all posts
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Devon falls, Pathana, Hatton, Sri Lanka.
Experiences of my batch-mate Buddy Reid at this site.
Hello Phillip,
I am no photographer, but I too started with a box camera belonging to someone else on a trip to Nuwara Eliya in 1955. I nearly lost my life as a result. I wanted to take a picture of the water falling downwards from the top of Devon Falls. I went close to the edge and slipped on the wet rock. I was sliding downwards almost at the edge when I saw a clump of grass about one foot in diameter. I managed to grab it with my left hand and fortunately for me it did not break off at the roots.
The box camera flew out of my right hand, across my body to the left and landed near a pool in the rock. I carefully went on all fours and retrieved it as it was worth more than my life, by which I really mean that my life would not have been worth living if I had lost my friend's expensive camera.
Buddy
Hello Phillip,
Thanks for the photograph of Devon Falls which adds drama to the story. You can see the road at the back, curving to the right end of the picture. I got off the car at the right end of your picture and walked down the pathway that you see, running at about a 20 degree angle from the road to the top of the falls. I slipped on the very limited area of rock between the end of the path and the top of the falls (the left side of the falls which is the right side of the photograph as you face the photograph). As you can see, it is a sheer drop. We did silly things when we were young. I wonder whether any of our batch-mates have done things which beat this for lunacy or had near death experiences. Please don't let my grandchildren know about this. I don't even let them climb up the side of their bunk bed.
Buddy
Thanks for the photograph of Devon Falls which adds drama to the story. You can see the road at the back, curving to the right end of the picture. I got off the car at the right end of your picture and walked down the pathway that you see, running at about a 20 degree angle from the road to the top of the falls. I slipped on the very limited area of rock between the end of the path and the top of the falls (the left side of the falls which is the right side of the photograph as you face the photograph). As you can see, it is a sheer drop. We did silly things when we were young. I wonder whether any of our batch-mates have done things which beat this for lunacy or had near death experiences. Please don't let my grandchildren know about this. I don't even let them climb up the side of their bunk bed.
Buddy
Click on the web-link below to watch a video-clip of this:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AzP47p0ROg
email observation from Nana
Hi Buddy
I am glad to hear that I am not the only lunatic in the batch.
When I came over to UK in 1976, I thought I knew how to drive around in my car. My wife and I took few of our Sri Lanka friends to witness a cricket match played between the Sri Lankan cricket team against Somerset. We traveled from Sheffield (that was where I was working as an SHO in Paediatrics at the time) to reach the cricket grounds.
We did not have 'sat nav' facilities then, but only the printed road maps. As we were not very good at getting the road directions, I had entered a motorway(which I should never have got into) in the wrong way round and only realized my folly when we found few cars coming in the opposite direction. It was not funny and all the inmates were shouting at me in real filth. (May be some one at the time was helping me as I was not destined to die that young)
I managed to take a U turn and get onto the right way round within a few breathless moments. Fortunately that motorway was new and there were not many cars at the time.
We did witness the match and we cheered the Sri Lanka team as they did well against Somerset ( Ian Botham and Viv Richards were in the team).
We did return home safely very late.
Not surprisingly the 2 friends who were with us refused to get into my car afterwards.( Incidentally both those friends have died few years ago).
I am still alive to tell the tale.
You may share this with your grand children to show that even the medical students can be stupid, ignorant and foolhardy.
Best wishes.
Nana
I am glad to hear that I am not the only lunatic in the batch.
When I came over to UK in 1976, I thought I knew how to drive around in my car. My wife and I took few of our Sri Lanka friends to witness a cricket match played between the Sri Lankan cricket team against Somerset. We traveled from Sheffield (that was where I was working as an SHO in Paediatrics at the time) to reach the cricket grounds.
We did not have 'sat nav' facilities then, but only the printed road maps. As we were not very good at getting the road directions, I had entered a motorway(which I should never have got into) in the wrong way round and only realized my folly when we found few cars coming in the opposite direction. It was not funny and all the inmates were shouting at me in real filth. (May be some one at the time was helping me as I was not destined to die that young)
I managed to take a U turn and get onto the right way round within a few breathless moments. Fortunately that motorway was new and there were not many cars at the time.
We did witness the match and we cheered the Sri Lanka team as they did well against Somerset ( Ian Botham and Viv Richards were in the team).
We did return home safely very late.
Not surprisingly the 2 friends who were with us refused to get into my car afterwards.( Incidentally both those friends have died few years ago).
I am still alive to tell the tale.
You may share this with your grand children to show that even the medical students can be stupid, ignorant and foolhardy.
Best wishes.
Nana
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Waterfall by the roadside on the Beragala - Haputhale climb, Sri Lanka.
Children playing in a small stream and their mother washing the clothes form an idyllic sight.
Click on the web-link below to see a video of the scene:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGHQ6w0BXBA
Friday, September 23, 2011
Dehena Ella - waterfall, Rathnapura, Sri Lanka.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW4CgR7bFBc
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Two views of 'Bopath Ella', Kuruwita, Sri Lanka.
Monday, October 11, 2010
Alupola water falls, Rathnapura, Sri Lanka.
The Alupola falls has to be reached by a side road going from Wewalwathe 18 miles from Rathnapura on the Mawala - Hapugasthenne road. It is visible from the road and consists of three seperate waterfalls. The first is the tallest and is shaped like a chair, the second is like a bridal veil and the third is like a pregnant womans belly. It is a nice spot to have a picnic lunch. During the rainy season it is dangerous with the muddy water roaring down with driftwood and stones.
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