Our Sri Lankan Garden

For the last week of our trip to Sri Lanka we have been staying in a smart guesthouse in the southern beach resort of Unawatuna.  It's a tasteful spot after the some of the more basic places we have been in - a kind of camp and tropical St John's Wood.  But the chief glory is the garden, which has been designed with great care as a habitat for the guesthouse's dogs and the local wildlife.  Every morning we linger over breakfast with the other guests with our cameras at the ready and have rarely been disappointed.


Most dramatic are the monkeys, which you can hear crashing through the nearby woodland as they approach the garden for mangos and papaya left out especially for them and the other visitors.










Staying here has at least taught me that you can have too many photos of monkeys, but that it's almost impossible to stop taking them anyway.

There's also a small breed of local squirrel which is especially attractive.  Fast moving with a stripe up its back which makes it look a bit like a chipmunk.  Unusually I managed to snap this one in the split second before it decided to disappear up the next tree.