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kiknkorea
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 Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 3:45 am Post subject: Pattaya beach in danger of vanishing |
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PATTAYA, Thailand (Reuters Life!) � The days of R&R on Thailand's famous Pattaya beach could be numbered.
The eastern city, a magnet for foreign tourists seeking sun, sea, watersports and racy nightlife, is under siege by both man and the forces of nature. One of Asia's most popular beaches is being eaten away at a rate of nearly two meters (yards) a year.
Thai scientists say sea currents and impacts of the city's booming development have intensified coastal erosion and a beach packed with deck chairs, umbrellas and bikini-clad holidaymakers could disappear in less than five years.
"If we do nothing about it, the beach will disappear in the near future -- you can see that (in) some areas the beach has already gone," said Thanawat Jarupongsakul, a marine and coastal erosion expert at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University.
The beach area has shrunk to 3.2 acres this year and its width is now is about three to five meters (9.8-16.4 feet), compared to more than 35 meters (115 feet) in 1952. |
Certainly not the nicest beach around, but I wouldn't want to see it go either.
Full article-
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110201/lf_nm_life/us_thailand_beach |
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visitorq
Joined: 11 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 4:41 am Post subject: |
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| Beaches come and go, it's is no big deal. If anybody actually cares about Pattaya's beach, then they can just dump some more sand on it. Either way it's a disgusting hole. Personally I'd be as content if the whole thing just collapsed into the ocean... |
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Menino80
Joined: 10 Jun 2007
Location: Hodor?
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| Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 5:18 am Post subject: |
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| visitorq wrote: |
| Beaches come and go, it's is no big deal. If anybody actually cares about Pattaya's beach, then they can just dump some more sand on it. Either way it's a disgusting hole. Personally I'd be as content if the whole thing just collapsed into the ocean... |
You have that luxury don't you? |
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visitorq
Joined: 11 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:04 am Post subject: |
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| Menino80 wrote: |
| visitorq wrote: |
| Beaches come and go, it's is no big deal. If anybody actually cares about Pattaya's beach, then they can just dump some more sand on it. Either way it's a disgusting hole. Personally I'd be as content if the whole thing just collapsed into the ocean... |
You have that luxury don't you? |
What luxury? To not have to live in a decadent sleaze-hole like Pattaya? Yeah, I guess I do. Same goes for everyone else there (this is Pattaya we're talking about, not some UNESCO world heritage site)...
And as already said, if they want to keep their filthy beach from eroding away, go ahead and dump some more sand on it. I don't care. |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 12:56 pm Post subject: |
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| visitorq wrote: |
| Menino80 wrote: |
| visitorq wrote: |
| Beaches come and go, it's is no big deal. If anybody actually cares about Pattaya's beach, then they can just dump some more sand on it. Either way it's a disgusting hole. Personally I'd be as content if the whole thing just collapsed into the ocean... |
You have that luxury don't you? |
What luxury? To not have to live in a decadent sleaze-hole like Pattaya? Yeah, I guess I do. Same goes for everyone else there (this is Pattaya we're talking about, not some UNESCO world heritage site)...
And as already said, if they want to keep their filthy beach from eroding away, go ahead and dump some more sand on it. I don't care. |
I think he was referring to the 100,000 Thai residents of Pattaya, they don't have the luxury of leaving since their home and family live there. |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Can it take the city with it? |
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TECO
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| Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 3:27 am Post subject: |
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As mentioned already above, it's not a great beach and that's what beaches do - they come and go.
The only people that I've seen really use it a lot are the Taiwanese families that all go to Pattaya. For some strange reason, the Taiwanese seem to be completely impervious to what is happening there and aren't aware that it's a whorehouse. |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 1:50 am Post subject: |
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| I'm in waist-deep snow so I'd eat a scorpion right now to be in Pattaya. |
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Space Bar
Joined: 20 Oct 2010
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| Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 5:34 am Post subject: |
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| I'll always have the memories... |
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TECO
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 5:59 am Post subject: |
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| I'm in waist-deep snow so I'd eat a scorpion right now to be in Pattaya. |
Yeah, I was too last winter and would often find myself day dreaming about what it'd be like to be in Thailand at that moment. |
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Madigan
Joined: 15 Oct 2010
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| Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 6:19 am Post subject: |
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| caniff wrote: |
| I'm in waist-deep snow so I'd eat a scorpion right now to be in Pattaya. |
Sitting through another blizzard, are ya? |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 9:33 am Post subject: |
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| Madigan wrote: |
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| I'm in waist-deep snow so I'd eat a scorpion right now to be in Pattaya. |
Sitting through another blizzard, are ya? |
Wherever I go it's guaranteed to be record weather. |
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visitorq
Joined: 11 Jan 2008
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Grass is always greener  Living in the tropics can get to you too (esp. Bangkok)... It's been relatively cool lately, but come April I'd probably eat a raw prairie oyster to be escape the heat for a couple weeks... |
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NohopeSeriously
Joined: 17 Jan 2011
Location: The Christian Right-Wing Educational Republic of Korea
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| Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 5:14 am Post subject: |
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| And the urbanization rate in Thailand is getting bigger. |
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SinclairLondon
Joined: 17 Sep 2010
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| Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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| And the urbanization rate in Thailand is getting bigger. |
Just returned from a 6 week break in Phuket; third one. Every year it gets less and less green and more and more covered in concrete, flabby French breast, speedos and resorts.
Sad. But the important thing is that the rich Thais are getting richer and poor thais are becoming landless. |
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