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On the night of 10 June 2026, the southwest monsoon's opening rains brought the season's first significant flooding to Phang Nga Province. Within forty-eight hours, community halls had become kitchens, volunteers had waded in, and the water had receded — leaving behind a story worth knowing about the Andaman coast.
On 11 June 2026, the Urak Lawoi community of Koh Siray, Rawai and Sapam in Phuket launched their biannual Loy Reua ceremony — setting a flower-garlanded wooden boat adrift at dawn to honour the Andaman Sea and release the village's accumulated misfortune.
On June 19, park rangers at Khao Lampi–Hat Thai Mueang spotted a record-breaking return: leatherback sea turtle Mae Namo dragging herself ashore for a sixth nest of the season — a feat that rewrites what we thought possible on this stretch of Phang Nga coast.
On June 30, the Andaman Sea's three-month commercial fishing closure ends — and the trawlers, squid boats, and crab traps that have been waiting at port return to a coastline that spent the past ninety days quietly rebuilding itself.
Dozens of Chelonia mydas hatchlings entered the Andaman Sea at Sirinat National Park on June 14, part of a community Big Cleaning Day timed just before World Sea Turtle Day — and a reminder of what this quiet northern stretch of Phuket still protects.
When 500 officers swept Phuket, Phang Nga, and Krabi on 20 June seizing ฿1.05 billion in nominee-held assets, they did more than make arrests — they began naming what had been hiding in the heart of the coast's communities.
On 15 June 2026, Thailand's government announced a thirty-minute sea route linking Patong Beach to Phuket Airport, operated by local coastal boat families who have worked these waters for generations.
Thirteen tourism organisations from Phuket, Phang Nga and Krabi have formally asked Bangkok to reverse a plan that would end visa-free entry for Indian visitors — a change they say threatens more than ฿8 billion in wedding-economy revenue and thousands of small-business livelihoods across the Andaman coast.
On 15 June 2026, Thailand's government announced a sweeping plan to clear illegal encroachments from Sirinat National Park's beaches — reclaiming tidal heritage for the coastal communities who built their lives along Phuket's northwest shore.
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