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Paddyfields

Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 5:38 pm
by E. Bowdery
Can anyone help me please?
I need confirmation--from someone whos lived in CVO/Lagoa area for long time--were they ricefields outside Lagoa --on the right of the old road as you go into countryside?
I want to get it correct for book and description---I could view this area from my roof garden --and was told by friend there that they were paddyfields. The gullies were constantly flooded and I would see egrets feeding there--there were always amphibians on the roadside -even saw a turtle there once!
But when I asked friend in Colombos(Portuguese) he thought it was just swamp land--does anyone know the answer please?
Thanks Ellie

Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 6:49 pm
by Guest
only know it to be swamp land...they did and I think still do grow rice near Penina but Lagoa I dont think so.

martin

Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 10:06 am
by Gambrinus
I think it was swamp land, drove by it every day when I went to school and never saw anybody working the fields. In summer there was also cattle grazing there quite often.