{"id":13391,"date":"2019-02-18T11:46:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T11:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saltwater-dreaming.com\/surfers-circles-at-patong-and-kamala-beaches\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T15:39:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T08:09:33","slug":"surfers-circles-at-patong-and-kamala-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saltwater-dreaming.com\/news\/2019\/02\/18\/surfers-circles-at-patong-and-kamala-beaches\/","title":{"rendered":"SURFERS CIRCLES AT PATONG AND KAMALA BEACHES"},"content":{"rendered":"

[i]December 26 2005 posted by SWD<\/p>\n


\nphotos of the memorial www.saltwater-dreaming.com\/gallery<\/p>\n

In ceremonies held on December 26 2005 at Patong beach and Kamala beach, Phuket’s surfing community honoured the victims of last years Tsunami caused by a 9.0 earthquake near Sumatra which devastated southern Thailand on Dec. 26, 2004, with a “paddle out” to form a “surfers circle” with a minute’s silence in the water and casting of flowers into the ocean.[\/i]The circle and strong emotions that went with it only helped in strengthening bonds between surfers on the island. <\/p>\n

Though traditionally a way to mourn the loss of a fellow surfer, Phuket surfers felt that a surfer’s circle was the most appropriate way for them to pay their respects to those who were lost to the sea’s wrath one year ago.<\/p>\n

As most of the surfers live or at least spend a good deal of time on or near the beach, the ceremony was especially poignant as they themselves lost family, friends, and livelihoods to the Tsunami.<\/p>\n

During the ceremony, participating surfers paddled their boards offshore and joined hands to form a large floating circle. Following tradition, they sprinkled flowers into the sea and observed a minute’s silence in memory of those that perished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[i]December 26 2005 posted by SWD photos of the memorial www.saltwater-dreaming.com\/gallery In ceremonies held on December 26 2005 at Patong beach and Kamala beach, Phuket’s surfing community honoured the victims of last years Tsunami caused by a 9.0 earthquake near Sumatra which devastated southern Thailand on Dec. 26, 2004, with a “paddle out” to form … Continue reading “SURFERS CIRCLES AT PATONG AND KAMALA BEACHES”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-13391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thailand-surfing-news","tag-surfing-news-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saltwater-dreaming.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saltwater-dreaming.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saltwater-dreaming.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saltwater-dreaming.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saltwater-dreaming.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13391"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.saltwater-dreaming.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18275,"href":"https:\/\/www.saltwater-dreaming.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13391\/revisions\/18275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saltwater-dreaming.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saltwater-dreaming.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saltwater-dreaming.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}