Last day of holiday - spit roast picnic at the Apollonian Hotel:
Noosa Beach
Eumundi picnic
Noosa National Park
Australia Zoo
Hawke's Bay
Training for the airport run
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More of the beach kids in Galle
I hate photos of myself, but Sarah (link to her incredibly neglected blog here) kindly sent me a photo from our time in Sri Lanka which I thought was pretty cool (the cool bit is not me - I still look like a donkey).
Sarah was with me when I took this photo in Galle:
...and while I was showing the kids the photos of themselves on the LCD screen, she took this photo:
Thanks Sarah!
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More Sri Lankan randomness
Sarah on the beach - this was just before we took photos of the Sri Lankan kids jumping in the sunset
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A frog (Sinhalese: "gemba") on the wall of one of the restaurants we went to in Galle
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More elephant bathing action from Pinnewela. Those two brown lumps at the top are indeed what you think they are.
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Tim and Charlie walking around the villas in Sigiriya
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George during a game of hide and seek in our hotel room in Colombo
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Tell me if you're sick of the holiday photos
Stark raving mad dude jumping off a structure at the Galle Fort (we gave him about US$10 to get this photo). He came over and looked at the LCD preview after I took the photo and said "I'm like a bird!"
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George exchanging flowers with Wijey (one of the villa staff in Galle). The flowers were a gorgeous pink, but I struggled to get the colours right when I was editing this - so I went black and white. I'll try again over the weekend. The photo might look a little soft - it wasn't anything I did to the photo... unfortunately the lens was coated in condensation (the camera had been sitting in an air conditioned room and it was 38 degrees Celsius outside)
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Gorgeous little Penny at Sigiriya
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Rachel and George playing on the beach at Galle
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One of the many curry dinners we had on the trip. I ate the equivalent of my bodyweight in poppadoms.
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Charlie watches Tim hurling an old coconut husk back into the sea
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The whole team at the beach in Galle (before anyone asks, George was looking away in every photo I took)
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