Thread: Post a photo you took yourself

Originally Posted by Edmond

Looks like an interesting place to go for a sail.

Yeah, its a nice place to sail.
Its only about 90 minutes drive from home to the Taal Lake Yacht Club in Talisay.
There wasn't many other boats on the lake.

Originally Posted by DrWilly

Is that a Hobie cat?

Yes

I'll venture as far as to guess a Hobie Cat with sports kits attached (no solid boom and the wings attached). It's a great boat. I think the max racing weight is supposed to be around 120kg or so. So although it has space for several kids sails better with only 2 people.

^ Original Flintstone wheels bought from Ebay?

Looks like stoneage contraception devices.

Originally Posted by Stretchy

^ Original Flintstone wheels bought from Ebay?

picked up on Carcass Is in the Falklands, waiting for our Geo to ID them

Originally Posted by malmomike77

come on Mendip

An help with the size may assist.

Biggest one is about and inch and 3/4

^^^ I'm going with fossilised vertebrae?

Originally Posted by Mendip

^^^ I'm going with fossilised vertebrae?

Really? seems to comprise the same rock that these are made of. The longest is about 4 inches,

I took this in 2009 with a ten pixel Olympus DLSR with a macro lens. I sure regret selling that camera.

Originally Posted by malmomike77

Really? seems to comprise the same rock that these are made of. The longest is about 4 inches,

Possible vertebrae, anyway. I wouldn't like to get more definite than that without touching them.

Originally Posted by Mendip

Possible vertebrae, anyway. I wouldn't like to get more definite than that without touching them.

i'll see what i can do

Hotel view after checking in yesterday. First time we stayed at the Oriental Residence and unfortunately didn't stay long as we will hit the road back to Lampang in about 15 minutes. Will have to remember this place on the next trip for a longer stay. Very clean nice room and very quiet. All hardwood floor and tile. ( I hate carpet in hotel rooms)

We have rain
Chanthaburi
28 May 2023

Last week I wandered up the Mekong, starting at Mukdahan. Probably my least favourite of the riverside towns. The Indo-China market used to be thick with tourists before Covid. Now it is all but empty. Many of the shops still open, some don't bother. By 5pm it is a wall of closed roller shutters on both sides.

Very considerate of local government to place tactile paving into their footpaths. For those that don't know 'tactile' paving is there to aid the blind or hard seeing pedestrians.

On to That Phanom, which I like much more. It's a small town with a big temple. There are a million pics of Wat Phra That Phanom, it is very much on the Thai tourist trail, they come to respect the fragments of the Buddha's breastbone held in the stupa. This picture is of the remnants of the old stupa nearby, much less visited, it fell down in a storm in 1975. The bone fragments were recovered and moved to the new site, HM the King came to the opening. They then refurbished the old stupa. Legend has it that the bone fragments were brought here shortly after the Buddha passed, at his instruction. Archaeology suggests the site is younger than that, still the old stupa sits on a site that has probably been a temple for over a thousand years:



Every Thursday morning That Phanom has a Laos market. Traders cross the river and the market kicks off about 0500 hours. (I am told. I went after breakfast.) It has a very 'real' feeling of being a market. Small traders trying to sell stuff. Porters hefting sacks of vegetables through the crowd. Everything from fish to handbags. The picture doesn't really do it justice.

Last stop was Nakhon Phanom. I could live here if only it were possible to find a plot with a river view. This derelict hotel beside the river is a part of history, locals say it was very busy with US military personnel during the Vietnam war (or the American war, depending on your perspective.)



The mighty Mekong is a bit wimpish at the end of the dry season. Some might suggest the Chinese dams upstream have made an impact, I couldn't posssibly comment. There is a 'beach' area at the moment, a couple of people parked out by the water's edge and they are about half way to Laos.

Originally Posted by Simon43

I returned to LP on Wednesday and it is blissful. My lungs are good, I'm almost ready to rent a house and the local police have yet to arrest me...

Good luck, how are you going to do the ham radio thingy after the police issues from last timer. I like LP, or i did when i was last there over 10 years ago, very sleepy, but i imagine the chinkies will ruin it.

Originally Posted by Simon43

yours truly is persona non grata right now to enter the country..

one less thing for sausages to worry about

Originally Posted by malmomike77

Good luck, how are you going to do the ham radio thingy after the police issues from last timer. I like LP, or i did when i was last there over 10 years ago, very sleepy, but i imagine the chinkies will ruin it.

I think (hope) that the police were more concerned about my work permit last time and that I was 'working' from home due to Covid. When they asked me where my office was I had no idea, which is what miffed them.... This time I am 'retired' and a WP is not needed. I'll try to use antennas that are less 'in-your-face' as well!

Originally Posted by Mendip

Possible vertebrae, anyway. I wouldn't like to get more definite than that without touching them.

Give em a lick, go on you know you want to.

Originally Posted by Simon43

I returned to LP on Wednesday and it is blissful.

It's been quite a journey to get back to where you started from. You have your health, which is important. Will you return to your old home there in LP?