Today's photo, Phuket Sunset moves away from the recent desert theme to an ocean one but stays with the lack of green in the image. Taken in the early 90s, Phuket was transitioning away from the back-packer's paradise of the 70s and early 80's to the resort style place it is today. This photo was taken from Patong beach. The main roads were in place by then but there were no mega resorts, the concrete for the earliest of those was being poured at the time. A sweep of Google Earth reveals that none of the places I used to stay still exist, swept away by progress or the tsunami of 2004 which sent a wall of water some 5m or 15 feet through where I was standing on the beach to take this photo.
A sail boat sits at anchor in the orange glow of s Phuket Sunset, Patong Beach, Phuket, Thailand.
