Galle Fishermen

The famous images of fishermen at Galle, in Sri Lanka, are of the fellows that sit up on poles in the surf, but that practice has long ago become something the locals only do for tourists. It was nice instead to see real fishermen working on shores of Galle. There are two images (this one, and above) that I liked. This one shows two fishermen walking along the beach with its warm coloured sand. They clearly were friends and I watched them talk and laugh as they walked away. I liked as well the shanty shacks in a tatteredĀ jumble along the beach. Prime real estate in other parts of the world, but here the mere sheds of fishermen and their families.