Adventure Sports in Sri Lanka 2

Kayaking is an excellent way to observe some of Sri Lanka's beautiful sites that are along the rivers. For jungle river kayaking or canoeing, the journey from the Sinharaja Forest Reserve to the coastal town of Kalutara is ideal. It doesn't matter if one has never canoed before, this is the ideal way to experience the wilderness. To make journeys all the more interesting small jungle tours and riverbank camping are also available on the Bopath Ella waterfalls to Kaluganga. For some calm kayaking or canoeing the Bentota lagoon is the place to be.

Adventure Sports in Sri Lanka

As it is surrounded by the Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka has some of the best diving spots in the world. Seawater temperatures remain around 27 degrees Celsius and underwater visibility during the high season, which is from November through April on the southern and western coasts, is between 15m to 40m. Some of the best diving spots are found from Beruwela to the beach resort of Unawatuna on the south coast. There are many coral reefs, submerged shipwrecks and exotic fish that the ocean offers all divers.

Waterfalls in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka is known for its many tourist destinations and also its beautiful beaches but there is also a side of Sri Lanka that offers those who appreciate the great outdoors a spectacular display of nature.

Waterfalls are one of Sri Lanka’s most treasured parts of nature. Sri Lanka boasts of almost 400 waterfalls scattered all over the island. Breathtaking waterfalls cascading down mountain slopes enhance the beauty of the hill country. The geographical formation of the island, with the central highland sloping down to the coastal plains, has resulted in several rivers and streams starting from the central region flowing down the hilly slopes in a radial pattern, creating these wonders of nature in several places throughout the hill country. This section will take you through some of the most famous of them.

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Being a naturalist I have a firm believe that new opportunities will boost your knowledge and experience in this field. Having an opportunity to play the role of a naturalist for the Sri Lanka’s latest aquatic adventure tours organized by the Walkers Tours in collaboration with Ceylon fishery harbours corporation, was privileged to gain this new experience of observing the giant whales and the dolphins roaming in our tropical waters. Surely, this allowed me to read a lot about whales, their migration patterns, and surface characteristics on how to identify them and lot more.

On 11th of April another tour of whales watching with 12 guests came under my purview, which we started sailing around 07.20, am from Mirissa harhour with gloomy weather conditions. Continued roaming around Matara in search of whales till 09.30, am but no sign of a whale other than the few bottlenose dolphins we observed. Everybody seemed disappointed but I had a strong feeling that we will be successful before we end the journey. In fact Mr. Phil Sheldrake, a Project Manager from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds of United Kingdom with his two daughters seemed to be very anxious of seeing a whale. Suddenly our sailor, Thuduwage saw a blow of a blue whale and we were able observe our first blue whale with a distance of about 100 meters before it raised the fluke and take a deep dive. Quenching the thirst of seeing whales eight blue whales came in our presence allowing us to observe all the surface characteristics including few exhales, dorsal fin before raised their flukes and take a deep dive. Everybody of the boat was thrilled with this lifetime aquatic adventure experience they cumulated before we end our journey around 11.15 am to the Mirissa harbour.

The same journey but with different set of clients on 12th April almost on the same time but with better sunny weather conditions. Almost the repeated story of the previous day, roamed till 10.00 am in search of whales up to Dondra point but no sign of a whale other than a herd of bottlenose dolphins and some spinner dolphins. Repeating the previous day’s story a blue whale came in our presence but with quite a distance without leaving much space for us to observe. Without satisfying the observation of the first whale we were looking forward to see another one or two whales before we start proceeding to the destination again a blue whale came in our presence to observe all the surface characteristics with a safe distance before it raise the fluke and take the deep dive as usual. Before we end up the journey around 11.45 we spotted another blue whale and a humpback whale. To mention, the return journey to the harbour was not smooth as previous day due to the rough sea conditions. Everybody were compelled to have a nice bath with sea water because of the sea spray blowing through the boat due to heavy waves kissing in front of the boat.

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Some Women ARE Born to Be Skinny....

It turns out that for some women it is just in their genes. At least according to the research done by one group of British researchers who are claiming that anorexia nervosa is actually genetic. In today's Daily Mail, it has been reported that neurological development in the womb is the reason why most sufferers of the disease develop the condition.

The study found that in women suffering from anorexia in treatment centers in the US, UK and Norway more than 70% had suffered damage to key neurotransmitters that caused them to become anorexic. These neurological changes can be detected as early as age eight, say the researchers.

These findings could revolutionize the way we both conceptualize the disease and how it is treated around the world. Such a finding doesn't just effect our understanding of etiology, but how these women understand themselves in the world and how they can interact with others--from their families, their friends.

Yet, it raises another key question: screening eight-year-olds to determine whether or not they are at risk for becoming anorexic seems like a pretty dangerous proposition to me. In fact, I would argue that it should not be done. Parents testing their children for the "anorexic brain" could go one of two very dangerous ways:

1) Katie's potentially anorexic brain and lithe frame makes her an ideal candidate to become a supermodel if she's coached in just the right way and pushed just a little, but not too hard or

2) Hannah's possibly anorexic brain makes her parents terrified of her future anorexia such that they are constantly asking her "Honey, want another cookie?", resulting in her becoming an overweight teenager who then resorts to bulimia nervosa to keep the weight off, or

3) you simply have constantly nervous parents who are wondering what will happen to their daughter now that they have the knowledge about their daughter's potentially "anorexic brain".

The research is interesting for sure. But testing children to find out if they will have anorexia seems like a horribly bad idea to me. Let's try instead to control the images they see in the media and teach our children through the examples they see at home and the lessons they hear that they are beautiful no matter what weight or shape or size they are.