Sailor's Sight

Golden hour grazers at the NMA hockey ground. 🌅🐎

Sri Lanka Grey Hornbills (Ocyceros gingalensis)
Just two locals enjoying the Trincomalee sun. 🦜 No matter how often I visit, the wildlife here always finds a new way to steal the show

Stake-seine nets(ජා කොටුව)- This is a long-established artisanal fishery method, particularly in the Negombo estuary and Jaffna lagoon. Nets are fixed at specific sites, often near the sea mouth, to catch prawns as they migrate between the estuary and the sea, following tidal and lunar patterns.

Although Trincomalee is mostly known for its dry and sunny climate, it has its own rich variety of wild creatures that add to the beauty of nature.
If you take the time to look closely, you can discover some truly special moments in the natural world.

✨ Exploring Deduru Oya Dam Reservoir 🌊🐦
Just had an amazing time capturing the beauty of the Deduru Oya Dam Reservoir, a true paradise for fishing birds! 🐟📷 With its tranquil waters and stunning scenery, this spot is a photographer's dream. Check out these shots of the vibrant wildlife thriving in this fish heaven! 🌅🥰

Captured these stunning moments during my morning visit to the village paddy field, using my Canon 9000D and the 100-300mm Canon lens. The lens allowed me to get up-close shots of the beautiful birds in their natural habitat, from soaring herons to playful sparrows. The morning light and peaceful surroundings made for the perfect backdrop. Grateful for the chance to witness and photograph the elegance of nature, one shot at a time.

Calotes nigrilabris, the black-cheek lizard, is an agamid species endemic to Sri Lanka. It can be distinguished easily from painted-lipped lizard by having black bar on mouth rather than white or orange bar.
Captured at - Horton Plains, Sri Lanka

The Indian scimitar babbler (Pomatorhinus horsfieldii) is an Old World babbler. It is found in peninsular India in a range of forest habitats. They are most often detected by their distinctive calls, which include an antiphonal duet by a pair of birds. They are often hard to see as they forage through dense vegetation. The long, curved yellow, scimitar-shaped bills give them their name. It has been treated in the past as a subspecies of the white-browed scimitar babbler which is found along the Himalayas but now separated into two species, the peninsular Indian species and the Sri Lanka scimitar babbler (Pomatorhinus melanurus).
-Captured at Horton Plains Sri Lanka.

The Oil Tank Farm of Trincomalee built by the British but was never used in full capacity after independence is a forgotten marvel lost in time and absorbed by the jungles. This is a hidden landmark to the public eye but provides a spectacular aerial view creating 101 random circles covering 850 acres, like the eggs of a giant alien waiting to be hatched from a sci-fi movie. Most of this land is covered by scrub jungle teaming with wildlife including elephants and leopards.
But most famous is the destroyed tank number 91 lying on the far edge of the forest. Only the charred, twisted and melted metal remains of this tank and a small notice near the tank give details of how the tank was destroyed in a kamikaze attack during the Japanese air raid on Trincomalee at dawn on April 9, 1942.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
-Khalil Gibran