Tsunami page

As we moved around near Yala Hetti referred a couple of times to the events of the tsunami of 26 December 2004.    I have decided to put all the comments etc about this here.

He was at a Yala resort owned by Jetwings on the day and was supposed to leave with clients at 8:30.  They were late so he didn't leave until 9:00.  The resort was wiped out at 9:20.  He pointed out where he was at 9:20 and commented that shortly thereafter the water got there, washing a couple of fishing boats about 500m into rice paddys.

Several staff and guests at the resort were killed.

On his trip on the day Hetti was following a normal route and was told to go inland as the road was blocked.  Only later did he find the reason why.

One of his colleagues was on a safari with clients and, as usual had breakfast on the beach.  As they were leaving the guide looked in his mirror and saw a 6m high wall of water crashing over the breakfast area.  One guide and 12 Japanese tourists were killed at this point.  That is the location of the memorial of which a couple of images follow.

Presumably the wiped-out resort mentioned above is the one referred to towards the bottom of the page for Yala resort.