Stories at Sea · Coastal Culture
Coastal Culture
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Coastal Culture.
The Sri Lankan coast has a maritime culture that most visitors never encounter. Fishing communities that have worked the same harbour for generations, stilt fishing traditions on the south coast, the rhythm of the monsoon season — stories from inside these communities.
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The first coastal culture are being written.
Stories are published throughout the voyage season — field notes, dispatches and accounts from the ocean. Check back, or explore one of the other categories below.
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Other categories.
Six other editorial threads — from crew field notes to wildlife records, expedition reports to guest dispatches.
01· Stories
Journal
Field notes and route reports from our captains and crew — logbook entries from the open ocean.
Read Stories 02· StoriesExpeditions & Discoveries
Dispatches from the expedition voyages — crossing passages, frontier coastlines and rarely-visited waters.
Read Stories 03· StoriesCrew Stories
The people who sail. Captains, deckhands and naturalists write about the ocean they work on every day.
Read Stories 04· StoriesOcean Conservation
Conservation in practice — the reef, the cetaceans, the coastline and the work being done to protect them.
Read Stories 05· StoriesGuest Stories
Guests write about their voyages — what they saw, what surprised them, and what they would do differently.
Read Stories 06· StoriesWildlife & Nature
Blue whales, whale sharks, spinner dolphins and the full spectrum of marine and coastal wildlife encountered at sea.
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