The last week - back at the beach in Mirissa.

The tuk tuk ride from Galle took just over an hour and was very pleasant. Nimal stopped so we could take a couple of pictures of the stick fishermen (who mostly these days pose for pictures for money). 

Stick fisherman, on road from Galle to MIrissa.

Our last hotel in Sri Lanka, The Wadiya Hotel is really nice and a perfect way to chill out before heading home. We are right on the beach again and we have a lovely room on the third floor with a balcony overlooking the ocean. Perfect for our evening Arak tipple. I'm pretty sure the extra bottle we bought Sam is not going to make it home! (sorry Sam). 

Afternoon Arak on our balcony.

Beach side, Wadiya Hotel, Mirissa.

The ocean here is a cross between Arugam Bay (bloody big, ferocious waves) and Nilivali (really long break), so we're really enjoying it. The surf is pretty wild and we feel really beaten up (but in the nicest possible way) at the end of the day. Lots of body boarding happening as well - quite entertaining watching people getting dumped. There is also a very quiet pool of water, around the next bay, about 10 minutes further up the beach, we've swum there a few times - depends on how lazy we are. 

Looking sexy!

Not quite so sexy - that's gotta hurt!

Stop, I command thee!

There are a few cafes along the beach and they all offer pretty much the same menu. Each evening the cafes display their seafood and you can make your selection of crab, prawns and/or a variety of fish. So far we've had a huge tuna ($9) - bargain of the century and last night we had snapper. We ordered extra chilli last night, as we have now gone completely native :-)

Pick me, pick me!

There is supposed to be a rave this weekend. It's currently Sunday morning and some rather vile techno music is pulsating along the beach.  I sure hope it doesn't interfere with our evening arrack balcony tipple!

What techno music?

We're heading home on Thursday. We were going to spend a night in Colombo but we've decided just to go directly from Mirissa to the airport. It only puts an extra 2 hours on the journey anyway and saves one more check in and check out. I'm looking forward to the Sheraton Four Points in Dubai and our Hyderabadi Biryani at Gazebo restaurant. Anyway back to the surf.......

One of the three bays at Mirissa Beach.

Bye bye Mirissa, it was too much fun!