Aloha kakou.
There is a series of new videos posted on "The Perennial Plate" which is a website on sustainable food, number 119 "Do not blame the Sea" tells the story of a fishing 'ohana in Sri Lanka affected by the 2004 tsunami, number 118 is about coconuts:
http://www.theperennialplate.com/episodes-all/
In land area Sri Lanka is some six times larger than Moku o Keawe [Moku Nui] being 24,996 square miles and 4,028 square miles respectively. You can find connections between Hawai'i and Sri Lanka if you seek them, for example a group of hoe he'e nalu (paddle surfers) travelled over there from Hawai'i last year, in late 1884 and early 1885 there was an exchange of letters between the Hawaiian Kingdom Foreign Office and it's overseas Consulates on the subject of Hansen's disease, of 51 letters sent with an enclosed 17 point questionnaire one copy was dispatched to Sri Lanka. My late Grandmother spent a number of years in Sri Lanka during the time of the British Raj the island was then known as Ceylon. Island people Globally have much in common and the commonalities in fishing and land tenure often outweigh the differences. -Aloha.
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