After The Tsunami

Hector and I went to Thailand shortly after the tsunami hit Phuket in 2005. The island was eerily empty of tourists and apart from a tiny handful of Austalians, the place was deserted.

It was pretty unnerving being there. I was very glad we were in an apartment up on the fourth floor (just in case). We were the only people on the whole of that floor and both the swimming pools were mostly empty too. It was a ghost town.

I would swim each day in either of the two huge pools and the only sounds that could be heard were those of the jungle creatures nearby. The whole experience was madly surreal.