10/02/2024
Baththalangunduwa Sandy Island - Kalpitiya - Enjoyable place to a journey
පැය 3 ක (24KM) මුහුදු ගමනකට පස්සේ මුහුදු රස්සාවෙන්ම ජීවිතේ ගැටගහගන්න මිනිස්සු පිරිසක් ඉන්න, කල්පිටියෙ ඉදන් නාවික සැතපුම් 15 ක් විතර ඈතින් පිහිටල තිබෙන්නේ බත්තලංගුණ්ඩුව දූපතය්.
In the sea to the west of Puttalam and Mannar lies a string of islands, about 13 in number. They are in the Dutch and Portugal bays. Some are inhabited and the others not, being completely wild. Our trip was to the thirteenth island of Baththalangunduwa.
This small island about 24km off the West Coast of Sri Lanka, off Puttalam and Mannar. The island is scarcely 4km long and less than 1 km wide, housing about 3000 fisher families who live in basic palm-frond huts, with little fresh water, basic sanitation, no health facilities and no power grid. The local lifestyle consists of fishing in the early mornings, then preparing and drying the fish, and repairing nets in the afternoon and evenings, limited by the lighting available from kerosene lamps or small generators. There’s one school, a church, a mosque, and a store.
To go to this island, one can hire a fishing boat for about Rs. 4,000, but this is negotiable. The other alternative is to go by ferry, which costs just Rs. 100 a person, but takes three hours. The fishing boats do the journey in about one and a half hours, but permission has to be got from the nearby Navy base, which we did. Fishing boats (motor boats) are available on the public jetty at Kalpitiya.
බත්තලන්ගුන්ඩුව දුපතේ වපසරිය හෙක්ටෙර්යාර් 145.53කි. බත්තලන්ගුංඩුව දුපතේ සිට ඉන්දියාවට ඇති කෙටිම දුර වන්නේ නාවුක සැතැපුම් 111ක් පමණය.
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