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Sunday, July 25, 2010

Beautiful Thailand


We went to Thailand for a 10 day holiday - it was heavenly - a place of considerable beauty.  This is taken in the late afternoon on a little  beach near Surin where we were staying - don't be fooled by the (beautiful) overcast sky - 30 degrees and the water about 28.


Sondowners on the top part of another beach - I was very lazy with the camera on this trip - but got it out for "the golden hour" when the light is just that - golden.


We went for dinner to a beach hut on Layan beach - lovely little places - the beachside equivalent of a Hong Kong daipaidong, this one run by a Rasta and pumping out some irie tunes - but the surf was pounding - Durban north coast style - very steep beach with big tippers dropping right onto the sand.  We were there with the Overtons - whose kids are mid teens - they were swimming - but it was just way out of the league of Aiden and Ev - but none the less they put on a nice little sulk.  It made me laugh (because they would have been completely destroyed by the surf) and because I got to photograph Aiden's attempt to keep it going:



It starts off here - the sulk - but with such a lovely little curl of blonde hair, hard to take seriously...

















Already the resolve is starting to fade, and this just a few seconds later...

















Now focussing on not breaking into a full on grin - forgotten the reason for the grumps ....


















Fail.  All dental chaos and joy -  back to being in good cheer.

















Evan doesnt really let external factors dictate - so he was happy to give me a big sandy cheesy anyway.





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