I don't know what its like now – more built up, more sophisticated, more upmarket probably but in the late 80's, the Phi Phi Islands were still mostly a back-packers destination, a quiet get-away-from-it-all haven. Night-club free. Off the grid. It was a very walkable place. A few locals had the ubiquitous Honda 90's but most people walked or took boats. To walk across the sand isthmus that joins the two limestone outcrops that form Koh Phi Phi Don took literally five minutes. Having photographed the fishing boats tied up in Ton Sai Bay I walked back across the isthmus to Loh Dalam Bay and took this shot. The sun is on it's way down – certainly within and hour of sunset. The boat on the left is the same boat I photographed earlier that day from the lookout point in my photo Loh Dalam Refractions. This was pretty much high tide for the day. It still stuns me to think of an 18 ft (6.5 m) high wall of water sweeping in this bay as the Tsunami of December 26, 2004 swept over this part of the island.
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