More busy days in Phuket

Monday - This picture is of Jessie and Harry jumping into the pool where we are staying and is taken from the verandah of the room we're in.

In the morning we went to Little Kata beach (Kata Noi) which is one bay south of main Kata Beach where we are staying.

We had a swim and the waves were crashing down... we had great fun... but got smashed a few times.

On the way to Little Kata, Mum got us lost but luckily we ended up at a great viewpoint looking back over the two Kata Beaches and Karon Beach.  This is the view in the photo below, beautiful picture isn't it. The first bay is Kata Noi and the second one is where we are staying at Kata.  The big building is at Karon Beach.  You could check out where they are in your atlas or on Google Earth.

 A man had two very large sea eagles and one of them perched on Sophie's arm... gee it was heavy... but Mum didn't want to get a photo because she felt sorry that the birds weren't free flying around.

In the afternoon we went to the Aquarium and saw some cool tropical fish but the aquarium was a bit small and Harry was disappointed because there were no sharks, dolphins or whales.  Hopefully we'll see some if we go snorkelling on Ko Phi Phi.

Tuesday

Mum hired a guide today who could speak English and Thai and he came with us in our car to Kamala Beach which is north of where we are staying and was the worst hit when the tsunami struck in 2004.

Mum and Mor (the guide) spoke to business people such as people who give massages and who hire out seats on the beaches etc to find out how they were affected by the tsunami.  One lady had lost her 3 year old son.  We also went to a temple that had been hit by the tsunami and learnt that the wave had come up to the roof of the temple... when we looked up we could see that this was way, way over our heads.

Check out our photo to see how high the wave would have been.  It also wiped out the local school and they've had to rebuild it in stone instead of wood.

Mor also took us up the highest hill in Phuket to the Big Buddha statue and it was huge... about 30 metres high. It also had great panoramic views over Phuket Town and the surrounding islands and coastline.

At night we went into Phuket Town and our guide took us to a place where the locals eat and we had more delicious Thai food.

Ka Kite Ano.