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Flag on the posts at Hiriketiya with leftover chop — pull the toddler out or is the bay just being conservative

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Kasper Holm•133 rep

Flag on the main Hiriketiya posts, leftover swell. Kid already in the shallows. Beach bar says the flag is only for insurance. I want a local, not a cocktail. 26 Aug.

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A flag means pay attention, not a brochure. Leftover chop on this water is ordinary in August. Shallows with a toddler can still dump a kid. Stay where you can stand, no inflatables past the first break. The bar does not write the flags. If it goes red, you are out. Nobody here is quoting an official warning colour as today's fact. It is just the sea you can see.

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Dilshan Goonewardena•227 rep

We kept the kid knee-deep and sat. Fine. The bar wanted a second round more than a safe bay.

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Calum Reid•109 rep

Locals swim inside the flags. Pride argues with a pole and then buys a plaster.

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Yara Bennett•129 rep

If there is no flag, look at the water, not a group chat.

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Etienne Bauer•149 rep

Inflatables past the first break is how you write a bad afternoon.

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Clio Ferreira•169 rep

We sat the sand. The water was a look, not a swim. Fine.

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Eoin Gallagher•109 rep

Ask a fisherman, not the cocktail menu.

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Anke Weber•129 rep

Do not invent a closed-beach order. Read the pole in front of you.

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Chamath Wickramasinghe•191 rep

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