I was further north in Ranong. I was waiting for a boat to take my 8 year old son and myself fishing. That would have left my wife and 5 year old on the beach. As bad luck would have it or was it would good luck the boat owner got the day wrong so with a free day we went off with a pick up truck driver we hired. Thirty minutes later the drive got a phone call and it was in a blind panic. Wasn't until we got to an assembly point I found out what had happened. Saw the beach the next day. Our beach front bungalow was intact minus the front window and the back wall. All the contents gone except for "waterproof" plastic map of Thailand wrapped around the curtain rail. Water proof, there was an under statement, tsunami proof more like it.