A Sri Lankan officer

The local agent, who is supposed to fix everything with customs and so didn’t do a proper work. It took Andes and me more than two-hour to pass everything. But they still were very friendly;  and I was allowed to take this photo of the military personal handling our papers. It was a very strange feeling sitting in his office. We were placed at the opposite wall in the room some 3 meters away from him. The agent went crazy fixing everything for the officer, putting all papers in front of him, picking up the right stamps and finally placing the documents in som kind af strange order. The officer just nodded and didn’t lift a finger, he didn’t even sign anything. It was a good show. But as I asked if I could take a photo, he put on his cap and stood up, I thought he would salute me.

 
Gally of Jennifer

Then, for the first time I got to see S/Y Jennifer. I got one of the aft cabins, witch was very fine with me. The bunk is wider so I can stretch out diagonally.

Lars picking out bananas

After settling in we all went to the town to get all the food for the trip. As you can see, we bought bananas by the bunch. They were green because we would keep then for a week on the boat. We had to go to the back to find some really green ones.

 
Galle market

Due to heavy rain we couldn’t get to Galle for supper, instead we made some nice chicken on the boat. We were still four people, but Antti was going to embark in the morning, He wanted to dive more instead of a ten day trip to Thailand. Therefore we were only going to be three on the journey to Phuket, Lars, Andes and me. More of that in the following post.