Amazing trip back to Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka, after 36 years. The first journey was as a young surfer in 1987, along with a band of dedicated tearaways that saw and surfed a lot in the months we spent there.
I visited Dickwella, 80km south of Hikkaduwa in January 2022 and had seen some of the changes the island has gone through over the years. But this recent jaunt was a direct return to a place etched firmly on my mind, there was always a risk of being disappointed as places become unrecognisable as the world turns far from the time remembered.
Last years visit prepared me for some of the developments likely to trouble me, apart from difficult pockets here and there, probably the same that are found globally, it was fantastic, still a real jewel.
More photographs from Sri Lanka can be seen @ sleeplessink.com
Photographs from 1987 (above).
Photographs from 2023 (below).
