Thanks mate ... good to see you stroking the Aussies on here before this weekend's rugby . Wish you guys all the best of luck of course ...Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon
Seafood Sunset on Jomtien Beach - 2
Jock, Dr. Jones, and I first met a decade ago working in Australia’s seafood industry. I ended up here, one of the world’s biggest seafood producing countries. They are both from the eastern states of Australia, but ended up in Perth which is good for high value seafood trade … shrimps, lobsters, Patagonian toothfish, etc. It was great to see them after quite a few years and to be able to show them a good time in Thailand.
The following “Seafood Sunset” on Jomtien Beach in Pattaya was friggin awesome. I’ve had some great piss-ups on Asian beaches over the years, and have been plied with the best grog and food from Indonesia to China, but this one on Jomtien will stick in my mind for a while I reckon. A carton of Beer Chang, fresh shrimp and crabs, and a fair bit of crapping on … the perfect warm up.
^ Doc being a pretty good footballer in his day gets a few aches and pains when hung over and reckoned he’d start the session off with a massage
^ After getting the beer sorted … next thing was finding something to eat. These chaps know a shit load more about seafood quality than me and were quite certain that these had been dragged around the beach all day. We decided to wait for one of the pick-up trucks that cook the stuff up fresh for ya.
^ We went in for some freshwater shrimp, crabs, and blue mackerel bbq’d in aluminium foil … does it get any better than this
^ The old blue-swimmer crab … they were chock a block full of meat too
^ Some more crabs … for those that have read my other traveller’s tales I’m a crab junkie
^ The lads loved these suckers … shrimp brains and beer is the delicious
^ After a while things started feeling pretty good … Jock was in fine form
^ Then the sun started setting and the lads started asking whether this was a normal weekend in Thailand or not … I thought about it for a while and reckoned a reasonable answer was “yes”.
^ A good shot of the sunset taken by Doc I believe
^ Doc giving the setting the thumbs up
^ Doc nursing his beer whilst looking over Bum Island off Pattaya
^ The beer took on a healthy glow at one stage
^ Mrs. Kerr and the sunset
^ Voted best pic of the day