Tsunami - Phang-nga - Khao Lak - Thailand - 53 Days After.......

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Khao Lak's resort area now seems more like a desert than a walk through this tropical paradise. This area is now devoid of any vegetation except for the trees left behind.

February 16th 2005

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http://www.pbase.com/win13/khao_lak

Most of the photos are Panos just so that you can see the scale of what really took place.

In memory of all that died and suffered thereafter.

Sawadee

The Colonel an Amateur Photographer

Kanchanaburi Win

My saddest photo shoot was when I got a series of great photos on a fishing trip and then accidently drowned my camera... never to be seen again.

Regarding the terrible tragedy at Kao Lak I lost two dear Thai families that I used to stay with. I WOULD have been there at the time of the tsunami had it not been for my daughter asking me to come home for Christmas in Canada at her new home. It saved my life and when I returned in March to where my friends used to have beach cottages they were all gone and nobody heard of them again. One family had two children and the other family had three.

Waiting by a waterfall with a drowning victim's family while police divers looked for him. Then I shot his father looking into the body bag to identify the body. I had shot homicide aftermaths and terrible traffic accidents before but nothing near as emotional as this one. It was my first front page story, and normally that would be a cause for celebration, but here it was certainly out of the question.