Dolphins & Whale watching

Seeing a whale of its natural territory is what an exciting moment? Joining the marine mammals watching tour Sri Lanka’s most latest marine adventure tour organized by the Walkers tours with the Ceylon Fisheries Corporation on 22 March this precious moment came alive with me after watching 03 blue whales off Mirissa Sea.




Started our journey around 7.40 am in the morning from Mirissa harbour and around 08.43 am we witnessed our first sighting of a blue whale exhaling and diving into the deep sea about 5 miles away from the shore. Taking further we were traveling through the deep sea in search of whales around 09.15 am we observed our second blue whale with the same behaving patterns. The sighting of this whale was about 10 minutes before it dives in the deep sea.



The longest sighting came alive around 10.30 am when a giant blue whale was passing us around 100 meters away from us. Everybody of the tour had a good observe more than 15 minutes before it raised the fluke and dive into the deep sea.




Then the dolphin session started when we observed few dolphins swimming ahead of our boat. Just after few minutes of traveling further the real pageant started when over 100 of dolphins were present in front of our eyes. They were surfing, swimming, throwing themselves out of the water. This show was continued until we decided to turn back.
Undoubtedly this is the most lifelong adventure experience I have ever had in my life.

Unforgettable Safari at Yala

Accepting the request at the last minute to join the camping site organized by the Eco team on 11th of February to host Mr. John and his spouse, I got the opportunity of visiting Yala National Park on the same evening which filled with full of great experience in my wildlife experience. As soon as we entered the park, the first sight was the tusker about 20 yards away from us allowing us to have a good observation on it. Our host Mr. John had five or six nice photographs of it.

While proceeding further, we spotted the most elusive leopard resting near a small pond and had a good look over 20 minutes of it. Quenching the thirst of seeing leopards another two leopards were present for us to have a good look over 15 minutes. In the mean time, we were fortunate to see another two tuskers adding the total numbers of tuskers up to three we observed during this safari. This was the first time I observed three leopards in a single visit to Yala National Park.

Mugger crocodiles, water buffalos, jackal, black naped hare, spotted deer, sambur, wild boar are some of the animals we observed during this visit and Brahminy kite, grey headed fish eagle, Malabar pied horn bills are some of the birding highlights.

Bird Portraits – Sri Lanka Blue Magpie

Jerdon's Nightjar

I observed this rare sight while I am on a safari in the Yala National Park. A rock python was hanging around this bird presumably to attack it.

Millipede

Palm Squirrel

Female bird of the Sri Lanka Jungle Fowl

Mostly the female bird of the Sri Lanka Jungle Fowl is not publishing. I hope this will be helpful for most of the people.

Bundala Lake at Dusk

Sunset in the evening creates picturesque sceneries. Enjoy the beauty at dusk over the Bundala Lake.

What a way to attract a partner....

Nature, where you collect life long experiences into your memory. See how hard this male pea fowl trying to attract its partner. We were lucky to observe this scene for more than 15 minutes at Yala National Park without disturbing them.