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Whale-Watching at Mirissa
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People once visited the beaches of southern Sri Lanka to laze under palm trees
and maybe go and peer at a few little fish on a diving excursion. Then somebody
realised that the deep blue was home to more than just schools of workaday fish.
It turns out that the waters off Sri Lanka are home to the planet's biggest creature,
the blue whale (not to mention the somewhat smaller sperm whale). Now, every
morning in season, boats leave Mirissa in search of creatures like no other (
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