Hikka - Unplanned and Awesome!

Departure Time:     12noon (LATE!)

Departure Venue:   Picked from home

Travel Mode:         Lashika aiyah's and Pathum's cars

Adventurers:          Avanti, Bambi Asiri Wickramasuriya, Lashika Weerasinghe, Yujith Perera, Thisal Senapathiratne, Pathum Perera, Dinuk Senapathiratne and Osanda Senapathiratne

Hikka was one of those spontaneous trips - totally and utterly unplanned!

I was staying over at Niro’s, and the guys just called me up on Saturday saying they wanted to go somewhere… With little options, someone came up with option of going to Hikkaduwa for the day! (I have NO idea why we didn’t think of Negombo, which was closer as well!) So, since all of us had nothing better to do, we soon made our way there.

Pathum was able to get his car, and with Lashika aiyah’s as well, we all piled in and took off!

Although Lashika aiyah drove most of the way, he also let Bambi have a turn in driving his car… and Bambi turned out to be quite a cool driver!

We went in search of Rita’s, which akki and them told me to find… but since I couldn’t find it, we settled on a nice stretch of beach that we came across. When we walked on to the beach, and were just gazing out into the water, we actually saw turtles swimming close to the shore! It was so cool. We had never seen sea turtles up close before, and they looked so beautiful just floating in the water, bobbing their head up and down… but it was hard to get a picture, coz they kept hiding in the waves.

[The boys also came across an equally interesting sight - but i will not mention that any further!]

After making a base camp in a small, closed-for-the-day restaurant, we put sun-block on ourselves(!!) and started playing tap rugger. It was a fun and exciting game – with me, Thisal and Osanda, paired against Yuj, Bambi and Lashika aiyah! (Dinuk and Pathum snapped pics) But even with me, we managed to hold down the fort, and scored a few… even though the other team won.

After we were tired out from playing, we stripped down and dove into the warm waters! It felt sooo good. We throwed around the rugger ball while swimming… and while Thisal and Bambi walked off taking pics, the rest of us rented a boogie board, and took turns riding the waves!

None of us knew how to do it properly, but it was fun to learn! We kept falling off, but some of us were soon able to get the hang out it… kind of. Once Thisal and Bambi returned, we rented another board, and helped each other ride some waves. It was tons of fun!!

After swimming and playing around until the sun had gone down, we came out of the water and took even more pics with a SURFBOARD (even though we didn’t really use it)!!

Then we washed in a shower nearby, changed and went back to the car to head back home.

[All of us had frantic calls and messages from home as there had been some trouble in Colombo areas, due to the provincial elections; but everyone was ok.]

Back in the cars, we started heading for Colombo, only to stop for dinner at a place called Kandoori. It was AMAZING food, and quite reasonable as well (make note!). We stuffed ourselves here, before finally heading home – stuffed and excited with our adventure.