Graptolite - Ta-ta Touts & Tamils
Graptolite's Sailing Log
Martyn Pickup & Heike Richter
Tue 27 Jan 2009 06:18
After a last bit of being ripped-off, this time with overpriced provisions
and half-filled gas bottles, we escaped from Galle under the suspicious eye
of the Navy machine gun post. I don't expect to be back any time soon.
So now we are enroute to Male in the Maldives and should make landfall in a
couple of days. There's not really much land to fall onto though and rising
sea levels are likely to cover the whole string of atolls by the end of the
century. As the tourism people almost said "Come and see us while we are
still here".
There's almost no wind but we are getting some whales and dolphins under the
boat to look at.
M