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Simplesmente encantador! Sem palavras...(Portuguese) Just magical! No more words... BRASIL, 07/03/2008 cfredbs@iol.com.br 08 March 2008 21:26

ชอบมากเลยมันเป็นอะไรที่หาดูได้อยากมากๆเป็นคนที่ชอบดูชอบเที่ยวชายทะเลมากยิ่งถ้าได้ดำน้ำดูปะการังชอบมากๆเคยไปแล้วครั้งหนึ่งพอถึงกำหนดกลับไม่อยากกลับเลยหากคราวนี้ได้ไปอีกจะไปเที่ยวให้หลายที่เลยจะพาเพื่อนๆไปด้วย พิศ 06 December 2007 15:46

I am thinking about you all every day. I will never forget this day. Thank you all, for being such wonderful human beings on that day. Thanks to Wut for saving my life, to Phil Dolman and Val Moore, whose names I will never forget, and never seem to be able to find, to Kerstin for talking to me in the hospital, and to everyone else. If anyone, ever, wants to talk, please write. Or send som pictures. Love. / Linn linngrondahl@hotmail.com 24 August 2007 02:38

Me and my girlfriend was there. We were extremely lucky who found eachother soon after the wave. We took shelter on the hillside together with maybe 10-15 other people. I have not seen this page until now and thought i had to wright something. Anyway we are fine today and have a son who is 2 yo now. We will never forget that day. Simon, Sweden simon.strand@arlafoods.com 20 August 2007 08:34

สวยมากเลยมุมนี้ ไม่ค่อยเห็นบ่อยนัก Unseen Thailand Sophon 12 May 2007 00:10

อยากไปจังเลย เปิ้ล 14 February 2007 17:41

If anyone has any photos before/after the wave I would be very interested to see them. j.d.chadwick@btinternet.com 12 June 2006 23:38

I was there with my friends Simon & Isabelle. I broke three ribs and had to have stitches in a deep neck wound. Thankfully, all three of us have made full recoveries but I still think about the wave every day. John Chadwick 12 June 2006 23:34

Hi I was on Ko Hong with my boyfriend Simon (who has already written a message on this page) when the wave hit. I had my leg amputated as a result of my injuries. I will be returning to Asia in November this year to cycle 500km across Vietnam and Cambodia in aid of The Cambodia Trust which helpd other amputees in Asia who have not been able to receive the same quality of healthcare as I have been. If anybody would like to sponsor me then please email me and I will send you information on how to donate. Fiona fionacallanan@hotmail.com 21 April 2006 21:08

I was on Koh Hong when the wave hit the islands, Its soo good to hear about everone getting on with their lives after such a terrible day. I recieved a complicated fracture to my neck, but have now recovered after a number of operations. I plan to finally return to the island in July to pay my respects. If anyone would like to get in contact to talk about the events of that day it would be very much appriciated. montymumford@hotmail.com 28 March 2006 07:06

Me and my husband and his sister’s boyfriend found each other soon after the water pulled back. The rest of my husband’s family was missing at first, but we found them later at the hospital in Krabi. We spent most of the day on some kind of tiny ledge right before the place on the jungle trail were I think most people were. There were at least two more people with us. I believe their names were Angela and Richard. Angela was blond and she went up and down getting juice and water for us. Richard was in a terrible pain leaning towards a tree. If anybody knows those two, I would be really happy to get in touch with them!/Elisabet isalann@yahoo.se 21 February 2006 04:14

Hi... We were at Hong when the tsunami came. If anyone have pictures after/before the Tsunami, we are very interested to see them. Sine & Nanna, Denmark sine_udeng@hotmail.com 03 February 2006 21:46

Hello everybody who was on Koh Hong the 26th of December. We are a swedish family with two girls. We lived at Sheraton during our visit. I think we were 3 families from that hotell. The 23rd of December we are returning to Sheraton and Krabi. And of course we will be at the island on the year day. Probably it will be hard but necessairy. We hope that we will meet some of you there as well. During this year I have been in contact with Sarah Bown and Silvia a couple of times. Our friends, also a swedish family being at Hong have meet them in London. Hope to see you at Hong! Regards, Anna-Karin fredrik.larson@bredband.net 17 December 2005 21:36

We were on Hong Island the day the tsunami changed all of our lives.We cannot believe that almost a year has passed and feel so incredibly grateful to be alive. I wrote our story on this site some time ago and submitted it but it never went through. We thank you all for your courage and assistance and would love to hear updates and new web sites to look at. Please advise. May the coming year bless each and everyone of you who so richly desrve it. Love the Brown Family from South africa. Andrew Joanne Frankie and our au pair Vicky. joanne2@absamail.co.za 16 December 2005 01:51

Only saw this site today - almost a year later! We were there too, Bester family (originally from South Africa, living in Phuket for 4 years). 9 in our group and all survived, many injuries but grateful! I will really appreciate any pictures that was taken that day. besters@gcthailand.org 13 December 2005 21:04

We are a family of five who all survived by being on the Nature Trail when the wave struck, my husband and son went back to the beach to help survivors - so glad to hear so many accounts of people surviving, also keen to piece things together about what actually happened on the day. maggiewhitehead@hotmail.com 01 December 2005 03:44

Our return to Koh Hong in November 2005 It was definitely with mixed emotions we decided to return to Thailand and Koh Hong for the first time since the monster wave struck on 26th December 2004. We are a Norwegian family of four who all survived. But being only survivors has also turned out to be a pretty tough experience for many of us during the aftermath of the catastrophic events that took place on that paradise island last Christmas. We have learned from different sources that 8 thai men and about 20 tourists died. Out of about 120 people on the island that day, this means a death toll of around 25% and many others with severe injuries. Together with Phi Phi and Chicken Island it seems that Koh Hong was one of the three worst hit islands in Krabi province. We also learned during our stay that those who died at Koh Hong have been registered as dead in other places like Phi Phi, Krabi and Phuket. In other words, there are no official death tolls or statistics of injured people from Koh Hong! On our trip back to Thailand we booked the same hotel in Ao Nang and went back to Koh Hong twice, on the 12th and 15th of November. The first day we hired the same boatman who had brought us out there on Boxing Day. The description of the wave from his viewpoint by the lunch place in the middle of the lagoon, compared with our own and other observations, could indicate a wave of between 10 and 15 metres when rising outside the two islands, just before the wall of water cascaded against us all towards the beach and the jungle. The wave hit sideways from southwest with titanic forces and crushed 100 to 300 hundred metres into the jungle at different spots. It destroyed most of the vegetation in its way, but a very strange phenomenon has appeared afterwards: in every place the water flowed into the jungle small papaya fruit trees are now growing and the boatman told us that “papayas have never been seen on Hong before”. It is still a mystery why the tsunami wave did hit Koh Hong so hard that day. We are no experts ourselves, but topographic descriptions of a deep water channel running all the way far south of the Phi Phi islands in a northbound direction and passing just outside Koh Hong, in combination with a relatively short reef shore and geographically placed in a southwesterly direction towards Sumatra could explain why the wave built up and became such a monster on that particular island. And as you all noticed: it just came, from nowhere, in one big wave, creating a completely different pattern from other places the tsunami hit. The proportions of the wave, its destructive powers and the high death toll caused by it even makes it a greater miracle to have survived that terrible sea monster! We also went along the nature track around the island and actually found our hiding place in the jungle, a pretty spooky experience, the echo at the bottom of the hillside was extremely loud, no wonder we thought other monster waves were on their way during the hours we sat terrified and waited for our rescue. But this time we felt secure that no tsunami was on its way: the large blue-tongued lizards were there! The tsunami experience has created an awareness for nature within ourselves, signs that could save lives in the future. Like members of that tribe on a remote island close to the epicentre in Indonesia the blue-tongued lizards had run up the hillside just after the earthquake at 0758 AM that morning. We are though still puzzling with the question of exactly when the wave hit Koh Hong. After returning to Koh Hong almost eleven months after the disaster, we still think of the island as paradise on earth, but in our minds it will always stay as a paradise that in seconds turned into hell. The island will never be the same again for those of us who survived the tsunami. In memory of all who lost their lives at Koh Hong on 26th December 2004. Jan Faye Braadland and Esther Frydenlund post@tekstforlaget.no 28 November 2005 04:20

We were on hong Island on my birthday the 26 of Decmeber. So mutch pain. We will always remember Andreas & Pernilla andreas.stromberg@conventum.se 24 November 2005 15:04

wow สวยงามมากกล้ารักปลา กล้า 17 October 2005 12:25

I was also there; I did what i could to help, carrying injured and.... to the bungalows, (and to the boats for evacuation); we climbed up the cliffs; I am very lucky obviously, to have survived, but emotionally I am not so great; my heart goes to those that were worse off. i plan on returning this christmas, to sit and ponder, Kevin (canadian guy and his Thai girfriend) kevboys@telus.net 06 July 2005 08:54

Hi, i am looking for the Dansish man that were sitting next to me in the mountain I met you also in the Krabi hospital and also the man that help me down to the beach. I think he was from Irish !!. I also be happy to hear from Sara/England that was with me in the ambulance. I.m Petter from Sweden the tall man that take the last boat from the Hong Island together with many dead peaple and their relatives. petter@catwalkdesign.se 13 March 2005 00:40

we were on hong island 26th december 2004, my daughter ann-sofie 16 nearly drowning is now ok, oscar my son has hurted his eye but the rest of my family is ok. we were lying beside the hurted south african woman with the pink bikini. i really want to hear if you are ok! if somebody has picture from the island when the tsunami came please e-mail! kerstinramsten@hotmail.com 11 March 2005 21:43

Hello. I too was on Koh Hong. Fortunately both I and my friend Susan survived with minor injuries - so many were less fortunate and my heart goes out to those who lost loved ones. I just wanted to let you know that on Saturday 12 February 2005 I returned to Hong Island. It was not an easy trip to make, but one I wanted to and needed to make. A step in coming to terms with what happened on the 26th December. I found the Island, though bruised, still a beautiful place to be - and making a start in recovering its place as a piece of paradise. Strangely, the trip up the hill from the beach was a relatively short trip - no more than 6 minutes..not the age I seem to remember! I have photos of the island post Tsunami and am trying to set up a webpage of them -in the meantime if you would like me to send you copies - please ask. It has been good to hear of and from so many of you and I wish you all God speed. Sarah sarahbown_99@yahoo.co.uk 21 February 2005 22:42

My partner and I were there too. I was in hospital with a collapsed lung for a while but he was ok. I would like to thank everyone that helped us out on the Island and especially Jens Bergh who looked after me in hospital in Phuket. Hope everyone is getting better. Roberta - rmcdowell26@hotmail.com 20 February 2005 22:37

My name is Paul Rogers from England, I was there with my wife Nicola and children Sophie & Jenson & 9 others. My leg was severed badly- thanks to Dan Faulkner for pulling me out of the sea, to Roger Burgess for carrying me to safety-to the man from South Africa- Grey Beard - who was with a young girl with a broken leg, please get in touch I need to thank you for your help. I will heal along with Nicola & Sophie who were battered and my little boy whose teeth were knocked out. We cannot thank all the others who helped us. paul_timberland1995@tiscali.co.uk 18 February 2005 20:21

Esther Frydenlund, Jan Faye Braadland, our daughter Karoline and her boyfriend Patrick (see below and picture at http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/2004/12/27/418601.html) were all at Hong and survived the monster wave miraculously with minor psysical injuries, but bad memories of course. We have met many of you at Hong, among them Andrew with family from South Africa (lying next to us on the beach), Simon and his badly hurt wife, Silvia and her family. ecfryden@online.no 16 February 2005 04:04

We were also on Hong Island 26.12.04. We, my husband and I, were together with our 4 children and we all survived. One of my son was injured pretty badly in his face and I have a broken leg but we are recovering all of us slowly but evt. we all will be able to continue our lives with these memories. We feel very much for those who lost their dearest. I would like to thank Sara, she was working for the British Embassy in Bangkok and helped me a lot mentally when they had to carry me in a rescue boat. If anyone have pictures after the Tsunami, we are very interested to see them. Take care Carole and Jens from Denmark carole@bergh-aps.dk 14 February 2005 20:23

roger, theresa and dan were all on hong island 26.12.04 roger was hospitalised 4 11days and is now recovering. we were with 10 others 4 who also had hospital treatment. paul had a very bad broken leg and still has a long way to go. i would like to thank everybody who helped to carry the kyach to the rescue boats. any photos i would like to see. best wishes to everyone. rogburgess@blueyonder.co.uk 12 February 2005 01:49

me and my family were there with 9 other friends we all survived with injuries and are recovering now. if anyone has pictures of the aftermath please send them to us. sales@degraafftrailers.co.uk 11 February 2005 18:50

hello everyone.......me and my family were also there and we are also ok.......if any one have pictures on the island after the tsunami came it would be wounderful if you could send them to me.......write subject Koh Hong.....thankyou......./Joakim Svensson bocke_99@hotmail.com 08 February 2005 03:16

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