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 January
25th 2005
Happy New Year !
Well, what can you say.
We were luckily in Cambodia when the Tsunami hit, on the coast
at Sihanoukville. Originally we were meant to be in Thailand
but time didn`t allow it. Our friends Dave and Delph were on
Ko Mak, in the Gulf of Thailand.
Tomo and Kyoko however, were on Ko Surin and were hit by it
on Boxing day morning. After calls to find out if they were
Okay (survived and being evacuated to Phuket then on to Bangkok)
we headed over there to meet them before New Year. Other mails
from friends we'd met travelling confirmed that they were all
well, mostly as they'd left Thailand just before the main holidays
started...
Tomo was snorkelling when the first wave hit and spent an hour
swimming against being pushed past the island and out to sea.
He finally managed to haul himself onto a rock out at sea and
was rescued an hour later. Kyoko had been sleeping in a tent
on the beach when it hit, luckily the flap was open and after
being dragged upthe beach was able to escape with help from
others fleeing. We read in a paper recently that the islands
big reefs and palms may well have taken a lot of the force out
of the waves impact and saved many lives...
As for us, we're at the moment getting our Laos visas and will
be heading there soon.
Shin-nen Akemashite Omedeto ! Bonne Annee !
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October
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