Island Life Blog

Some of Wild Island’s favourite spices such as nutmeg, clove, and cinnamon, depend on pollination - the act where pollen from one flower is taken to another to fertilise and help the plant make fruits and seeds.

Although small, the island of Sri Lanka shows a remarkable diversity of forest types and is considered some of the biologically richest forests in Asian and Far-east.

When you leave the Island of Angamanain and sail about a thousand miles in a direction a little south of west, you come to the Island of SEILAN, which is in good sooth the best Island of its size in the world.

Drink your koththamalli’ as a preventive intervention against is a familiar refrain among Sri Lankans, almost a niggling litany from mothers and elders who will swear by the good- ness of a liquid brewed from roasted coriander seeds to beat the cold and the flu.

If you think a cup of tea is about dunking a tea bag into hot water and stirring in some milk and sugar, just don’t serve it to Merrill Fernando.