Another local to have experienced the tsunami disaster, was 25-year-old Lisa Goldsworthy, daughter of Paul Goldsworthy and Jane Tucker from Pembrokeshire. She is also granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Williams, of Manor House, St. Florence, with whom she stays when back in the area from her home in Bath, where she lives after attending university there. Lisa, originally from Saundersfoot, had flown out to Thailand at the beginning of December, and met up with several friends on the 23rd in Koh Lanta, a neighbouring island to Koh Phi Phi. When the tsunami struck, Lisa and her friends were out on a boat trip, snorkelling near Emeralds Cave. "We were in the water when we felt the current start to get stronger and more dangerous around the stack rocks," Lisa told the Observer on her return home. "A young girl got caught up in the current while we were in the water, but luckily she was saved from any real danger. As we returned to the boat we waited for the tides to die down, before returning to the island resort where we were staying. "Only then did we realise what had happened, as some of my friends who were on the beach had seen the wave strike, and we could see the devastation and flooding of the resort for ourselves," she explained. Although the island Lisa and her friends were on was only slighty hit compared to some of the worst struck areas, they still felt lucky to have escaped any real harm or injuries. "Our villa was higher up than some of the others on the resort, so we were able to return and collect our possessions, but most of the lower villas were hit very badly and wrecked by the flooding. Later on we were moved to a restaurant on a higher cliff to wait while everyone tried to come to terms with what had happened," continued Lisa. It was not until later on Boxing Day evening that Lisa managed to contact her worried family back in Pembrokeshire to let then know that she was fine, and had to wait two days before she could leave the island.