Trips to Bangkok to locate Boat Parts in the back streets ( New update sorry for the delay)

[Geoff Cooper]

I too enjoy reading about all your adventures. Please keep them coming @Geoff Cooper !

Thanks for the reply i appreciate your comments, I will do my best to keep you Guys entertained with the real Thailand not the TV or magazine versions.

 

[Geoff Cooper]

Always enjoy taking trips with you @Geoff Cooper. I also enjoy your Macgyver boat fixes. keep em both coming.

Your welcome Gym I'm pleased you enjoy the post it's nice of you to say so.

 

[Geoff Cooper]

Here's a few Photos of local life and bits and pieces around my village, I will go to Bangkok again soon so i will do a bigger post but this will give you more insight into real Thailand not what you see on TV or in the Magazines, It's the rainy season now and i haven't been out in the boat lately so it's had a full service and a good clean and polish, I hope you enjoy the Photos and i will be back with some more Photos and more information on Bangkok in the near future, I hope you enjoy.


Locals fishing in the village stream


These are a kind of freshwater snail


These are Freshwater crabs they nip you really hard

Sorting out the catch



Fresh water snails he will walk along until he feel them with his feet and then go down and get them



Local Sea fishing Boats



If you want to get around Thailand this is the overnight Bus it has beds so you can sleep and you wake up at your destination
very cheap about a 700 mile trip costs about $12

This is a Squid Boat the big class bulbs glow green at night they really attract the squid, At night you see them out at Sea all glowing green.

Monkeys swim well


There's a few of these starting to get over here, I don't know what there like.

 

[rkluck]

Quad ski? I have not seen that before.

 

[Geoff Cooper]

Quad ski? I have not seen that before.

I hadn't either, Just drive it on the road the same as a Quad and then just drive it into the water the wheels and suspension retract and it turns into a Jetski, Clever idea, There's a test on You Tube i believe.

 

[rkluck]

This could be fun to have at the lake house! On-line they state 140 HP and will do 50 MPH. There is a 175 HP model as well. The cost will be about $40K. A little high.

 

[Geoff Cooper]

This could be fun to have at the lake house! On-line they state 140 HP and will do 50 MPH. There is a 175 HP model as well. The cost will be about $40K. A little high.

Yes the price sounds a bit rich maybe that's why you don't see many around.

 

[Geoff Cooper]

Thai military spotted testing new transporter for top secret 6 man Landing Craft/Submersible, To convert to submersible remove inflation plug and dispense with Life Jackets and wait.

 

[Geoff Cooper]

Went for a meal tonight just thought it was worth letting you know to compare the general costs, Half a roast chicken with the normal trimmings including soft drinks in a small restaurant near the Beach for the 2 of us, Total cost $8 very enjoyable.

 

[Big Shasta]

Went for a meal tonight just thought it was worth letting you know to compare the general costs, Half a roast chicken with the normal trimmings including soft drinks in a small restaurant near the Beach for the 2 of us, Total cost $8 very enjoyable.

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Nice, that would have been about 35.00 here plus tax and an expected 20% tip.

1/2 Chicken plate with salad, probably about 12.00 - 16.00 (top end at a beach restaurant)
Soft Drinks are usually 2-3.00 EACH (Torques me off, I drink water)

 

[Geoff Cooper]

No not really local Government come to do the mosquito kill.

 

[rkluck]

Wow that is a lot. I hope they warn you first!

 

[Geoff Cooper]

Wow that is a lot. I hope they warn you first!

Yes i was just giving the Engines a wipe over and had just finished when a nice Thai Gentleman holding some sort of machine with a small flame coming from the front asked me if i could wait outside for a while so he could do the business, He did a good job and gave me time to finish giving the Engines a wipe over.

 

[Murf'n'surf]

I remember back in the 70's and early 80's Chicago suburb used to come around with trucks and blasted white fog/smoke all over. I think they stopped due to the public health risk! Sure hope that stuff isn't too harmful.

 

[MikeyL]

I remember back in the 70's and early 80's Chicago suburb used to come around with trucks and blasted white fog/smoke all over. I think they stopped due to the public health risk! Sure hope that stuff isn't too harmful.

And Naples, in at least the 50's, 60's and early 70's, had the mosquito Fog Patrol jeeps, all laddened out, spraying every night.

Think it was DDT ........ It sure smelled for about 15 minutes. Went EVERYWHERE !!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Scuba_ref]

And Naples, in at least the 54's, 60's and early 70's, had the Fog Patrol jeeps, all laddened out, spraying every night.

Think it was DDT ........ It sure smelled for about 15 minutes. Went EVERYWHERE !!!!!!!!!!!

Ahh yes, the 54's those were a good year or so I've been told. A little before my time!

 

[Big Shasta]

I remember back in the 70's and early 80's Chicago suburb used to come around with trucks and blasted white fog/smoke all over. I think they stopped due to the public health risk! Sure hope that stuff isn't too harmful.

They still do that here.

 

[buckbuck]

As a kid, my brothers and I would follow behind the city mosquito fogging trucks with our bikes. The goal was to see how close you could get without hitting the bumper. It was years later that we realized they were fogging with DDT.

 

[Murf'n'surf]

They still do that here.

Our county buzzes our roof tops in planes at night while misting the insecticide.

 

[Big Shasta]

Our county buzzes our roof tops in planes at night while misting the insecticide.

Yeah, they use a helicopter along with the truck that has the sprayer out the back.

They put the damn helicopter on a trailer for every parade we have...LOL...Lower Alabama we are.