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A Beach Too Far
Trout Montague Started conversation Sep 13, 2002
My companion, Old Spice, and I are taking a break from the rigours of working by sojourning on Thailand's Ko Phi Phi Don, truly an island paradise in the Andaman Sea.
After several days dossing around Charlie's Beach Bungalows, we hitch a ride on a sailing yacht for an excursion to Phi Phi Ley, an uninhabited island about 4 km. away. Our trip is uneventful and we soon arrive at the mouth of Ao Maya (Maya Bay).
We drop anchor with the intention of rowing the dinghy across the crystal clear blue water to land. Unfortunately, the anchor jams and the automatic lifting motor isn't man enough to lift it up. We spend the next two hours trying to ameliorate our situation manually. Once the anchor problem is fixed, we picnic on the boat and then too exhausted by our exertions to bother with Ao Maya, we sail back to Phi Phi Don.
Dr Montague Trout
October 1997
PS
About a year later, a "20th Century Fox" film crew arrive fronted up by teen-idol Leonardo Di Caprio to make a film out of Alex Garland's novel, The Beach. We had seen Utopia and couldn't be bothered!
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