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High and Dry at Chao Lao Beach
A very low tide, boats up on the sand surrounding the pier today
Fishing Boats at Chao Lao Pier
Calm seas after several days of rough weather in the Gulf of Thailand. A day for boat repairs and net mending.
Songkran - Storm at Laem Sing
At 12.10am on Saturday 13 April a storm hit the port area of Laem SIng on the Chanthaburi coast.
The temple buildings on the north end of the bridge was badly damaged, and nine fishing vessels were sunk.
Photos: Thairath
River Fishing at Tha Mai
A plastic chair tied to two car tyre tubes, nets and a rod - a simplistic approach to river fishing on the outskirts of Tha Mai. The river here is tidal, about 8km to the coast and Gulf of Thailand
Fishermen’s houses
Near Phang Rat,south-west Rayong province
Paknam Prasae, SW Rayong province
Rivermouth of Prasae River and the Gulf of Thailand
From California to Prasae, Rayong
Just out of Chanthaburi province, 10km over the border with Rayong, is HTMS Prasae (formerly US Navy USS Gallup PF-47, Soviet Navy EK-22), at Paknam Prasae
Get there from Sukhumvit 3, 9km east of Klaeng then a further 10km to Paknam Prasae on Highway 3162
USS Gallup a Tacoma-class frigate, was built in California and launched 17 September 1943
Saw duty with US Navy in the Pacific until 26 August 1945
Transferred to Soviet Navy as EK-22 under a lend-lease agreement
Returned to US Navy on 14 November 1949 at Yokohama, Japan
Recommissioned 18 October 1950 for duty in the Korean conflict
Decommissioned and transferred to the Royal Thai Navy 19 October 1951 as HTMS Prasae
Decommissioned and struck from the Royal Thai Navy register 22 June 2000
Preserved as a memorial at Sattahip Naval Base then towed to Prasae 23 December 2003 as The HTMS Prasae Memorial
Dinner this evening at a restaurant in Chantaboon, overlooking the Chanthaburi River. This boat made many high-speed passes, racing between the bridges in the central city area.
3rd Annual Powerboat Races at Wat Khamong
Races held Sunday 10 March 2013, six boats per race, three laps of a course approx 600m per lap.
Fishing Boats at south Chao Lao
Framed by the Pier, low tide I cycled 5km of beach today.
A man and his boat
One man fishing operation, puilling in the net, off the Chanthaburi coast at Khung Wiman today
SS Nibba at Chanthaburi town wharf
21-22 January 1937
Photographer: Pendleton, Robert Larimore, 1890-1957
