My travelling companion said that I was crazy wanting to go to "James Bond" Island a.k.a Ko Tapu or Nail Island which found fame through the 1974 Bond film "The Man with the Golden Gun". The film starred Roger Moore and Christopher Lee (as the three nippled arch-villain Scaramanga) but it was the scenic topography that helped make the film into a firm Bond favourite. It also turned the previously unknown Phang Nga Bay into a major tourist attraction. We left Bang Rong Personal Pier for Panak Island and Hong Island.
Later we proceeded to Talu Island where the sea was so calm that we went canoeing around the sea caves. The Thais are so enterprising that they even had a small boat laden with fruits that tourist might buy.
A visit to the islands is never complete without a sumptous lunch. We were served fried fish, green curry, fried vegetables and some crackles. So this is the sumptous meal I was promised. It's so yucky that if I had a choice, I wouldn't go to this "Restaurant" ever again.
After the "sumptous" lunch, we quickly beat a hasty departure for James Bond Island as the boat captain indicated that bad weather was approaching fast.
The sight of "James Bond" Island was not what I had envisage. It is so commercialised that the better part of the island are being taken over by stall holders selling nick nacks of all kinds.
We left our hotel at 8:45p.m. for the one hour trip to the airport. We rushed to the JetStar counter only to be told that the flight was being re-timed to depart from Phuket at 2:20a.m. on Sunday. It was an antagonising wait of almost 4 hours at the departure hall. What made it worse was that there was no shops to while away the time. Finally...the plane left as promised and touch down in Singapore at 5a.m. On the whole it was indeed an adventure.
More holiday stories to tell...till then...Adios and vaya con dios!
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