Recently Trincomaleehas become popular as a Whale Watching destination
as well. The Dive centers at Nilaveli support the tourists to enjoy their
holidays in diving, snorkeling and swimming. Trincomalee district, called Gokanna
in the historical records. Gateway to a couple of finest beaches in the eastern
coast of Sri Lanka, namely Nilaveli located 16km off the town. Beaches
with knee deep shallow waters that runs hundreds of feet into the sea, afford
ample opportunities for surfing, scuba diving, fishing and Whale Watching.
The seven hot springs at Kanniyai located just 8km
from Trincomalee attract regular crowds
throughout the year in view of the beneficial properties of water there varying
in temperature from one well to the other.
Pigeon Island is
consists of two islands, one is small and other one is larger in size. This is
one of the paramount places to see corals. Pigeon Island, a little rocky island
where the blue Rock pigeons variety, and whose waters around are a delight of
colorful fishes. Popular with tourists, the island can be reached by boats
hired from any of the hotels or from the beach. In year 2003 Pigeon Island was nominated
as a nation park in Sri Lanka earlier it was a place of safety.
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In our stay at Nilaveli
beach, we decided to visit to Pigeon Island. This island can be seen clearly
from the breach. There are boat services available from the beach. Life jackets
provided and operators said that they comprise of insurance too. This service operates
from morning to evening.
It took around 15 minutes to
reach the Pigeon Islands. From the Nilaveli beach you see this as a one island,
but actually there are two.
The beach is covered with corals and I haven't got
that experience in any other beach in Sri Lanka. It's difficult to walk without
slippers, because of these corals. Some times departed corals can make sharp
cut, which can cause bad disease. Also most of the tourists had sea bath in Pigeon
Island. But in my experience for sea bathing Nilaveli beach is the best. Even
sand was formed with the crushed corals.
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View of Pigeon Islands from Nilaveli
Beach
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Also we can climb to the
rocks to get the view of the envirnment with the fresh ligh breeze. You can see
the real owners of the island, the pigeons in the other side of the
island. Rarely, you can see the dark patch in the sea water near the beach.
Actually it's cluster of small fish moving around the island.
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Nilaveli Beach View from
Pigeon Island
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Large number of people
visits this island in holidays or seasons. Pigeon Island is under supervision
of Sri Lanka Navy and Department of Wildlife Protection. The
journey to Pigeon Island is really interesting. This is a significant
opportunity I received in my life.
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