The only way to describe the islands is the way I saw them… ‘They are oversubscribed and the locals don’t care about their environment!!’. I dived at the premier dive island, Ko Tao, great fish but the coral is dead or dying and way too many people around to let it re-grow. Next, on a tourist tour of the islands around Krabi, the boat dropped the anchor on the coral while the tourists swam around fish eating bread thrown from the tour staff.
I spoke to the tour leader about the coral destruction from the boat anchor when we were on onshore… his reply was ‘The boat captain is in charge of that, I can’t help’. The boat captain did not speak English, so later I went to the national park headquarters to make a compliant, no one spoke English. This is a continuing theme in developing countries.
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Hey Benny - just catching up on your blog again. It's very interesting. You will have an immense knowledge of the whole world when you get to Oz again.
ReplyDeleteI'm off to Syria & Lebanon next month for few weeks - I told you I'd make it there, just a shame I missed you by roughly a year! I was pleased you titled your Lebanon blog entry "Lebanon - cool place"!
Hope it's all still good on the road. You epic adventurer, you.
Cheers - Jake
Hey Jake, make the effort to get to Balbeck, Hizbollah country and amazing ruins.
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