Kerala Backwaters Trip

Along with about twenty five of the wider family we enjoyed a trip on a river boat for a six hour trip in the Kerala Backwaters. This area is riddled with waterways that feed canals and irrigation for the paddy fields.  Our boat, the Bluebird, had seating on two decks and food was provided about lunchtime. There were plenty of birds and wild flowers to see. A lot of the plants were very familiar to us as indoor plants.

We stopped near a Toddy shop which serves a sort of beer made from the milk that is tapped from the trunk of a coconut palm tree. This is a similar process to tapping rubber.

The young ones had a lot of fun with their smart phone cameras and Yvonne managed to get a few singing Corrymeela songs!