Good Afternoon
As some of you should already know I have just returned from Thailand where I spent 20 days photographing my main objectives Pittas and Broadbills unfortunately my Ghetto Blaster only played for 4 days nonstop before 2 blokes on a motorbike blew it to pieces with a ground to air missile!. Meanwhile back at the Thai Malaysian border I was kidnapped by 16 lovely young ladies who forced me to sing Karaoke and drink lots of Softdrinks in the town of Su-Ngai Kolok which the local blokes from over in Malaysia frequent every weekend and it keeps the local economy going. They must have spiked my softdrink as I would always stagger down to the car each morning and pass about 4 army checkpoints with me trying to teach them to say Gidday How Ya Goin in my perfect Aussie accent, with my guide trying to hide under the seat as he did not want to know me but after a few days as we pulled up at the checkpoints we would hear at least one of the soldiers say giddayhowsitgoin but certainly it did not have that Aussie twang.
On a serious note I had a great time in Thailand and managed to get 4 Pittas being Hooded, Blue-winged, Fairy and Mangrove as well as 6 out of 7 Broadbills dipping on Dusky. I also heard Blue Pitta and got washed out at Mae Wong. I have put up the first lot of photos from the trip up on my website with stunning shots of the Green Broadbill who came into a pool on a small stream to bathe totally unexpectively
Here is my usual link and don’t take life to seriously! http://barraimaging.com.au/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=lastup
Yours ( with a laugh )
Geoff Jones
Barraimaging
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