Water nymphs & rough trade on the high seas ...

[Smiles]

Waterfalls are often disappointing for those who make the journey in Thailand's tourist high season, for it's not only high, it's dry. December through March can often be journeyed through without experiencing hardly a drop of rain . . . never great for waterfall trekking. (The one proviso on this general statement would probably be the area around Phang Na, Phuket and further south, which is always more wet than the rest of Thailand.)

But visit these cool wooded gullies in September and you'll find many a full on water rush ... and it gets better and better if you take the time to climb further and higher.
Pala-U Waterfall is about 60 clicks west of Hua Hin and is one of the best. In mid September it's full as a goog with a misty green ambience and great surges of water roiling around deep pools and sliding over great slippery boulders worn smooth by erosion.

If you manage to find yourself in a Hua Hin host bar (all 2 of 'em) in September then grab a young man and invite him to take a trip with you to Pala-U for a day out. There's a charming little restaurant about 2 miles before you get to the falls (excellent food) so you can feed the poor man and then take him way up on to #6 falls and either take a swim or have your way with him. Up to you :blackeye:

PALA-U

A rather typical (and beautiful) shot of the bottom of the falls where the river finally calms down and takes a rest. Pala-U is a teriffic park, beautifully kept up by the staff ... food is not allowed past #2 falls (of 6), and ~ rather surprisingly ~ not a discarded plastic bag to be seen.

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On #3 falls (I think) something was going on.
Watching secretively through the vines and trees we stumbled upon a photo shoot of some kind. The guy in the white pants had a beautuful girl (a nymphette?) in his arms and was at the same time continually adjusting his pants in the attempt to get a shot of ass which would be 'just' legal. My first thoughts were porno(?). But I think it was more likely a session of advert stills for a movie or a Thai soap opera. Or a magazine? Or Thai Elle?
We never found out, but the guy was built like a brick hong nam.

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Here was my first view of a water nymph. This greeny background might well be Ireland, so why not a sprite or a fairy to round out the picture? This young man was resting contentedly (and definitely non-Irishly) on a rock in the middle of a pool and I just happened to be crossing a small bridge. Snap!
He never noticed, and hardly moved the whole time ... so I surely believe he was thinking of love and happiness and contentment. And why not, there, at that moment.

I envy the way Thais sit up, back straight, comfortably in such positions. It comes naturally to them.

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Up the river the water kept coming, sometimes in great rushes, sometimes gently as in this picture. We sat here for quite a long time, until the fish had tired of nibbling at the skin on our toes.
I tried sitting up comfortably like the nymph above, but could not.

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Water nymph #2 (I'll call him 'Suphot') was going down for the 3rd count when I dove in to rescue him. Nymphs usually have little trouble going down, but this poor puppy was crying out for help. I reached him (with some effort) and managed to grab him by the crotch (all the better to save the wee boy) and haul safely him to shore ... by his ... where we ... in gratitude ... on a dry rock ...

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After some serious mouth to mouth resuscitation our nymph came around, and after some rest, grabbed the nearest hanging vine and mischievously proceeded to scare the shit out of me. I was called to join him many times, but decided that I would prefer to stay on dry land and attempt to perfect my 'sitting' technique.
The swinging nonsense lasted some time until Mr Suphot fell into the pool ... not being able to catch a handhold on shore. It was the last I saw of him, the (I-found-out-later) man eating fish at #5 falls being much larger (and hungrier) than the previous four.

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ROUGH TRADE NYMPHS AT PRANBURI RIVER


You may recall a topic I put up earlier this year about the mangrove swamp trip we took and how it came out half way through the voyage into the Pranburi River and the quite large fishing village which lives there.
At the time I had taken some shots of the boys on the boats, but had to apologise because I could not find any of the half naked Thai fishermen I had seen on previous trips.
Well, I've found some ... thanks to my friend Bob who also took this trip and had recently provided me with all the photos he took last year.
By accident, I was looking through them and found some of the photos I know you all' might enjoy . . . in fact the very type of shots I'd always 'just missed', usually because of forgetting to bring the camera (which Bob never does!).

There's no commentary here, coz they're not my photos and not my story. Just consider them the Missing Evidence from the story before :headbang:
These are actually really good photos ... really good expression capturing ... really good smarts with a camera. All shots below I believe were taken 'around' April 2009.
Thanks Bob.


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Here are the Underwear Shots. All the guys in these photos are not the most classically handsome by any means, but they have a certain, er, sexy 'texture' ... a certain swaggery macho look ... a rough-but-gentle bunch ... an I-go-out-on-the-rough-seas-(and live to tell)-every-day ("and what do you do?") elan.


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[PeterUK]

. In mid September it's full as a goog with a misty green ambience and great surges of water roiling around deep pools and sliding over great slippery boulders worn smooth by erosion.


I had to google 'goog' (well, they should know, right?) I thought it might be an arcane word used only by Canadian backwoodsmen and was a bit disappointed to find that it's Australian for egg. That apart, nice photo story as usual, Smiles.

[jinks]

Koh Samui has several waterfalls and lots of rough trade.

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[catawampuscat]

We never found out, but the guy was built like a brick hong nam.


Smiles, thanks for the photos.. I especially liked the rough trade in their briefs..
Also liked the brick hong nam reference and wondered if other forum members understood
what you meant..
For those who missed it, hong nam = toilet or shit house.. :hello2:

[Bob]

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I was mostly interested in the necklace and amulet around his neck. You do buy that, don't you?

[neddy3]

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I was mostly interested in the necklace and amulet around his neck. You do buy that, don't you?

Sure, Bob. What else could have made you take the shot?

Nice work, Smiles.

[Smiles]

" ... I had to google 'goog' (well, they should know, right?) I thought it might be an arcane word used only by Canadian backwoodsmen and was a bit disappointed to find that it's Australian for egg ... "
"Full as a goog" is definitely an Australian phrase, and an old one at that. I was born in OZ and lived there as a child until age 9 when the family emigrated to Canada. I've lost 99% of the Australian accent (thank god), but once in awhile a few iconic Aussie phrases pop up in speech or writing. When I typed that particular sentence yesterday the phrase "full as a goog" came seemingly out of nowhere ... some 'memory' cells left over and hidden away in some dark dank corner of my brain I suppose, like a dormant herpes virus waiting for an opportunity to sprout.
When I re-read the paragraph I noticed that and remember saying to myself " ... where's the hell did that come from ...?" Left it in for old time sake.

I knew someone would trip over it :blackeye:

[Patexpat]

well as far as rough trade goes, I always found that walk down the commercial fishing pier at Ban Saray (about 10 km south of Pattaya?) on a Sunday afternoon has lots of similar eye candy .... just in case anyone was interested! :laughing3:

[Beachlover]

I've never heard of the term "full as a goog" before.... must be a very old term.

Couldn't the boy in the maroon briefs just slip them a little bit lower?

[PeterUK]

I've never heard of the term "full as a goog" before.... must be a very old term.


You have to remember that Smiles is very, very old! He can probably also tell you what a furphy, galah, mollydooker and map of Tassie are. For anyone who might be interested, they are in order: a rumour, a fool, a left-handed person and female pubic hair. The last one has something to do with the shape of Tasmania and its resemblance... well, you get the idea. In the course of researching the above, I was a bit surprised to find that 'fair dinkum' is still in quite common usage. I thought it had gone the way of 'full as a goog'. Here's the rather alarming example of its use that one dictionary gives: 'Mick that koala just scratched my nob off.' 'Fair dinkum Shane, you did piss on him.'

[Beachlover]

I've gone all slack-jawed just from reading this. :blackeye: