Our long travels today took us along the coastline of southern Thailand from Phuket to the town of Chumphon. We passed through a few cute little tourist towns, one of them being Khao Lac. Saw lots of little restaurants, bars, dive shops, hotels...it all looked very new and nice. That is because on December 26, 2004 a 100 ft high Tsunami wave ripped through this village and killed anywhere between 4000 and 10000 people-pretty much every person there. The second largest earthquake ever recorded released the energy of 550 million Hiroshima bombs into the water off the coast of Indonesia. I have to admit that I am curious to find out what the people here have to say about this experience, but I am afraid to ask. From what we can see, there aren't any visible traces left over. But there must be lots of memories.
One a much happier note...we witnessed a cool construction equipment delivery today; you know, like coastal tool rental towing a bobcat (thanks for the analogy, Miss Sayward)...but here it was two elephants on a big flatbed truck, ears blowing, trunks sniffing, tails wagging. A sight to behold. The best thing I've seen in a long time.
I'll upload the movie I made of this later today. More tomorrow...thanks for reading all this bs :-)
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