Larry wrote:
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Suppose I buy a 46' Tayana sailboat with a 6-foot draft
and sail her from San Diego to this island in Thailand
how close do you think I'll be able to get to this piece of
property ?

Depends on how many and how big the gunboats are in the area.....

These pictures were BEFORE the tsunami wiped it clean, I suppose.

I have a movie of the tsunami drowning Phuket across the bay.

The photos were taken a few months ago. Lanta Island
wasn't hit that hard by the tsunami and this piece of land
wasn't hit at all because it's on the East side of the island.

I won't have to worry too much about the storms either
because they usually hit the other side.

On the other hand the other side has very nice beaches
and beautiful ocean.

I just found another tsunami video at:
http://www.break.com/articles/tsunamiasia.html

You can see that the person who shot the video didn't
have to run that far to be safe.