Satisfying Sea Demon Spirits

I'm back to working day shift this week. For some reason I feel like I have much more time outside of work when I'm working evening or night shift. Which makes preparing photos for this thing much more difficult. Tonight we actually had a big team dinner, but i forgot my camera. But this is one I wanted to post a couple days ago.


On the beach outside our hotel, this statue is at the main intersection. I think it's called the Sea Demon, but we're not sure exactly what it is. Sometimes it looks quite manly, sometimes as you can see here it's rather feminine. Kinda plays along with the rather androgynous nature of the Thai people. But another strange thing of this statue are the objects left around it. You have buddha figures and horses, glass bottles of Fanta and little nomb-like figurines. You also see similar displays outside buildings and businesses where food and drinks are left for spirits to look over the structure...but why anyone would leave anything for the Sea Demon, i don't know.