Wednesday 12th February
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| I forgot to add this photo of a cheery lady selling dresses on Patong Beach. (Yes I bought one... $8 and a lovely bright blue colour...) |
Another beautiful
swim this morning…
And I thought I
would take a photo of the dear little fish, industriously cleaning the bottom
of the boat. (Or trying to. There is always more growth; it thrives in
these warm waters, scrub though we might.)
We are having one
more day in beautiful Nai Harn Bay, and then tomorrow we are going to try to
get into Yacht Harbour marina, in the north of Phuket. Pete wants to get a bit of work done on
2XS…And we have discovered that some of our friends are there – Jon and
Irina*! Fredy and Chantal! So…it will be partytime yet again…
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| Jon, Chantal, Irina a few months ago... |
Sue and I ran into
Jon and Irina by happy coincidence in a huge Phuket shopping mall yesterday;
we were spending time there while Andrew and Pete spent happy hours in hardware
stores. On our way to this shopping
mecca we called in to the Rolly Tasker sail loft…again… This huge enterprise
used to be based in Claremont (Tasmania) but they moved to Thailand about twenty
years ago. Cheaper wages…It is a huge building,
with many busy women on the floor, sewing sails. And lots of boaty things to buy. Andrew and Pete were so very happy, going up
and down the aisles. Sue and I were just
slightly less interested. (I had been
there before, with James and Bron so I had already looked at all of the photos
on the wall in the foyer, and had learned all about Rolly Tasker, famous
yachtsman and sail-maker, now deceased.)
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| Everything in this shop in neat and tidy |
* I think I wrote
about Jon and Irina’s accident, on Langkawi.
They were riding a motorbike up the steepest mountain road on the
island. It had a rough gravel surface
and they slipped. Fortunately they
weren’t going very fast but they were both very badly injured. Irina’s beautiful face was lacerated, as were
her arms and legs. She has had many
stitches and looks fine, if a bit paler and shakier than before. Jhn came off worse. He broke his collarbone and did some damage
to his shoulder. He had it strapped up
and sailed off to Phuket. On the way he
was in LOTS of pain and developed a severe chest infection. And when he got to Thailand he had to have an
operation, with pins inserted. All just
ghastly. But Fredy says they were in
fact very lucky. The hospital, where he and
Chantal visited their injured friends, was full of motorbike-riding tourists
with all manner of horrible wounds.
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| Some more pretty food, from the Chinese New Year festival - a whole series of coconut confections |
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