It broke through the surface of the sea, skidded across the clear ripples - dancing, dipping and skating. It was a ballerina alongside our boat as we headed towards Phang Nga Bay. I had never seen a flying fish before.
Phang Nga Bay is the home of 42 of the 300 islands in all of the Andaman Sea - home to the famous island where Roger Moore filmed "James Bond: The Man With the Golden Gun", to countless eerie lagoons where monkeys screech in the trees and bats hang motionless in the dark caves.
We took canoes through a hundred metre stretch of dark cave where bats flew over our heads enticing screeches from many of the travellers; the cave opened up into a lagoon where fish swam by our canoe and birds whistled in the jungle around us. We had to lean back to keep from hitting our heads on the hanging stalactites that grazed our noses while we shrank to the bottom of our boat.
On our way back to the mainland we played games with the tourguides - trying to put glass Sprite bottles into formations and listening to techno music as a large rain cloud formed to the south. The cloud masked most of the island, loomed overtop of it and yet the other side of the island was a clear, crystal blue sky.
A streak of sunlight lit a line through the sea as we powered through the waves, back to reality.
"Be a fruitloop in a world of cheerios"
15 years ago
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did you take any pictures of them?
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