The END of the WORLD????

As a youth in Sri Lanka I used to like to go to Matara - the southernmost part of the island.  From Matara, looking south - one could see......just OCEAN.....and it would continue on all the way to Antarctica (in miles: 7168.67 or in kilometers: 11536.85) - TOO far to even fathom in a boat or "floating car" (if such were invented).  I would look out "to sea" at Matara and felt a very special feeling.  Surely, this was the END of the world??

I never photographed that scene (although it was very close to my heart).  Recently, a good friend of mine went to Sri Lanka and took this photo.  I asked her to please share it with me because it represents the "end of the world".   Please take a look for yourself - and try to think of not reaching land until 7168 miles or 11,536 km. ahead - is it any reason that sometimes when we lived there we felt we were the ONLY "real" place and everything/every other country was "surreal"???

So - thanks to my friend, Rubi, THIS is a photo of the END OF THE WORLD as one knows it from Sri Lanka.

Here is a map to PROVE what a distance it is!!