Sri Lanka: Bentota Beach


First of many relaxed and luscious beach places. (Though this was the only hotel selling such original artwork.) The kids were perfectly happy eating pizza, fries and drinking milkshakes beside the pool. “What’s not to like about Sri Lankan cooking?” they ask!

The buffet breakfasts are the true work of art. I understand why they only run for two hours, we’d stay and eat all day if they’d let us. All the usual pastries, fruits and cereals of the world… plus the omlette making dude, the uppa cooking lady, the waffle wallah and my favourite; the masala dosai making station. Breakfasting like a king of several principalities.

Lucinda revealed her twin skills of reptile spotting and nurturing and jet-skiing like one of Charlie’s Angels. The reptiles started out small; geckos, water monitors and became gargantuan by the time we hit Mirissa.
Bentota Beach really worked its magic for me when an elephant and mahout strolled through the hotel gardens (while I sipped my $4 mojito in the shade)

On the edge of Paradise

We had so much fun on the edge of the Tarra Bulga National Park on Australia Day weekend, with the Bodins, and the Leahy-Dalbys. I have feeling this is going to become an annual ritual. Pete took some of the best photos I have ever seen of my children. I’m going to post a few tonight to make sure I get them up for everyone to see, but I expect to post many more from this charmed few days as I have only been able to absorb a small fraction of the wonderful pictures he took … expect more to come …

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Somehow tentative, and confident at the same time.

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Ethan has grown up with the camera, and he is very conscious of it now.

He’s manipulating his image, working the camera. He knows the picture

will say something about him, and he wants to play with that.

Ethan made these images; I just pulled the trigger now and again. He was

quite clear about what he wanted.

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Acting out falling into the river in this shot.