Adam's peak, seen from Saman Dewale, Rathnapura, Sri Lanka.

Adam’s peak hiding behind clouds, view from Saman Dewale, Rathnapura.

 

Adams Peak - Sight from Saman Dewale, look between the trunks of the coconut trees, Rathnapura

 Close up on zooming the camera lens

Clouds starting to cover the peak, a few minutes later

Clouds covering  the peak, a few minutes later

            On a visit to Saman Dewale on the 20^th March 2008, I saw Adam’s peak bathed in bright sunlight. The peak next to it is called ‘Baena Samanala Kande’. ‘Baena’ in Sinhalese means nephew. It shows the close affinity between the Uncle and Nephew in the village tradition of Sri-Lanka, from ancient times. The nephew invariably married the uncle’s daughter.

            About ten minutes after I took the first picture, I saw clouds covering Adam’s Peak and I took the sequence of pictures. You can see Adam’s peak covered by the clouds. The ‘nephew’ is just visible through the haze. In another few moments the peaks were all covered by the clouds, as seen in the last picture.

Punya, Milroys wife's reaction to the pictures

Today after receiving your e.mail I was telling about the"nephew " mountain,  to my wife. She having had her first film location on Siri-Pada started singing "Siri Pada Himey Deiyange Rate- BaenaSamanala Kande"Thanks for your regular nuggets of knowledge-

Milroy

email from Daya Jeyasinghe

Thanks for the pictures. Can keep gazing for hours 

Daya j.