IChO 31 Photos

This first photo is actually of Canberra, in the ACT in Australia. This is where the Australian training camps are held. One of our mentors once put a bar over the fountain late at night. When it turned on in the morning, it was split into two streams, and one went onto the nearby bridge. The tower is atop Black Mountain, which is traditionally climbed on the last night of the camps.

7/7/99

This is the Australian team in all our finery with our guide, just after the opening ceremony. From left Anthony Philips, David Solomon, Prę (our guide), Keiran Rowe, James Andrewartha (me).

The Australian and the part of the Estonian team with the Grand Palace in the background. From left Keiran Rowe, Jevgania Kozevnikova, David Solomon, Oksana Travnikova, James Andrewartha (me), in front Anthony Philips. You can see the Bangkok smog in the background.

The main part of the Grand Palace, put together from two photos. Notice the use of both Thai and European styles in its construction.

Another building in the Grand Palace. It was bloody hot that day (in fact it was bloody hot every day) and we had to wear long pants. Very uncomfortable, though the Korean fans helped a bit. Taking your shoes off every time your go inside got old pretty fast.

This was me trying to be arty by showing all the pointy gold bits there are at the Grand Palace.

Another photo at the Grand Palace, note the Chinese style dragon which has a ball in its mouth (you can't actually see the ball) at the bottom left of the picture.

A photo from outside the Grand Palace, showing a great big gold thing, of unknown function (could be purely decorative).

Some of the tropical birds at Safari World, home of the Dolphin and Spy shows.

The carp feeding frenzy at Safari World. These fish are pretty psycho.

Another photo of the feeding frenzy. The spy show came after this, but I didn't get any photos of it. It was a pretty good spoof of James Bond, except for the fact it was in Thai.

9/7/99

Some of the ruins at Ayutthaya, about 100km north of Bangkok, and which is one of many old capitals of Thailand.

Australian, Argentinian and unknown teams outside a traditional Thai house at Ayutthaya; from left back row Anthony, me, someone, someone, front row Mario Tagliazucchi, Esteban Ganc?, David, Keiran, Matias Bikiel. I suck at names, so if you know who these people are, mail me and I'll fix it up. This was while we were wandering round Ayutthaya with little to do; we saw some elephants that we could ride, but it was a rip-off.

This is the 12m wide by 17m high Buddha at Ayuttaya.

From left me, Mario, Keiran, David, Matias. We are outside the temple that holds the Buddha above. I didn't take this photo, so the finger's not mine.

Some more ruins at Ayutthaya. I don't know anybody in this photo, so don't bother asking. As you might be able to tell from the way someone's cut in half, this is actually two photos put togoether.

More ruins at Ayutthaya.

This is a crappy photo of a shark at the Fish Palace place, up near Ayutthaya.

Another crappy photo of a fish.

The craft centre near the Fish Palace, where we were all bored brainless for several hours. As well, it lacked airconditoning, so we just sat around.

10/7/99

The small turtles at Sattahip Navy Base turtle conservation centre.

Some of the large turtles. Tim King is standing above the sign, dunno who the other people are.

More turtles.

Anthony and me patting a turtle. You can see my 200 baht watch which started falling apart after about two days. After this we went to a beach, followed by a really seedy wildlife park.

11/7/99

After the closing ceremony; From left back row; me (half cut out of picture), Esteban, Anthony, Mario, Keiran, Daivd, Matias, someone, front row Damien Bikiel, Manuel Rodrigo, Daniel Klein.

The Australian team; from left me, Rodd Snook, Keiran, David, Tim Senden, Anthony, and Tim's holding our mascot, Boris.