To Ao Ton Soi
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Sat 21 Jan 2017 23:47
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To Ao Ton Soi, Koh
Phi Phi  Yesterday we had our first dark, rainy and
very windy day. It became a chill-out day reading, blogging, eating, playing and
the odd libation after supper. This morning we woke to find it still very
overcast and windy but this did not deter the tourists who were arriving by
long tails every few
minutes.
 A
few braved the drizzle to walk the sand bar.
 By the time we left at midday the tiny island was heaving.
 Passing the aptly named Chicken Island.
 The odd hong or
three dwarfed a tour boat.
 The mainland –
still so very overcast.
   Resorts along the
coast.
 The bay to our left – very sheer and high sided.
 A rather attractive
ferry passes by as we get into anchor position.
 Here we are, all
tucked up.
 We will go in to a
thriving tourist town but Boxing Day 2004 was a very different Koh Phi
Phi.
  Boxing Day
2004. Shortly after 10:00 the water in both bays receded, the tsunami hit
at 10:37. The wave from the bay we are anchored in was 3 metres, the wave in the
other bay was 6.5 metres – both crashed together in the middle of the isthmus.
There were 10,000 occupants on the island at the time, including tourists, 11
people lost their lives. The total for the whole area affected was an estimated
850 with 1200 missing. The death toll will never be known for sure. 104 children
lost one or more parent. So very sad.
 Just as were going ashore look what passed
by. Colour me happy – quite literally – a Berger
Boat, well in these parts Nippon Paints....
ALL IN ALL A VERY BUSY BAY
– SO HOPE IT STOPS BEING ROLLY SOON....
JUST LIKE THE
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