If, at midnight, you stick your oar into the water of the lagoon near Kallady Bridge in Batticaloa, on Sri Lanka’s east coast, you might hear fish sing.
It was an amazing experience.” The hotel’s owner responds: “Even though a lot of people know Batticaloa as the ‘Land of the Singing Fish’ most of them including locals think it is a legend and no truth to it.
A few years earlier, a group of citizen scientists who call themselves the Science Navigators, set out to see if they could record the fish – they had found musical notation of a recording of the fish taken in the 1950s and since lost, so the fish were surely real.
In an interview for a documentary about the fish, one of the Science Navigators, cardiologist Arulnithy Kanagasingam, says, “I have no knowledge of music.
There, according to the Christian Science Monitor, houseboat residents heard the sound and thought that it was produced by navy experiments or aliens.
My husband and I had bought tickets using the government vouchers given to the good people of the state of New South Wales to encourage us to “Dine and Discover” in the name of post-pandemic recovery.
The singers performed on a tilted square-shaped stage, like a large paper napkin suspended on the water, over which hung a giant chandelier.