The last day of the trip turned into a beauty. I reckon that any trip in southeast Asia is incomplete if you don’t have some sort of memorable encounter with a pig and find a dick of some strange critter in a market somewhere. Anyway I wasn’t to be disappointed this trip, but the bloody pig this time brought on a nasty case of post inebriated anxiety about the prospect of one day having to return to my homeland and put up looking at all the big barge arse sheilas there. As for the animal dick I stumbled upon … well that just scared the clappers out of me.
^ The scene I came across when stumbling up all bleary eyed for breakfast on my last day – at first I thought my hosts had taken the good old Vietnamese hospitality too far and we were going to do “Moo Hun” Vietnam style, but I soon realised it was a religious offering .
^ View from the back-end of the pig – apparently the sucker weighed in at 105kg. This got me thinking about some news I received recently about one of my ex-girlfriends in Australia that recently hit the 100kg mark – shit I remember her as a hot, leggy blonde that used to go surfing with us and went like the clappers on the work bench. Anyway these strange thoughts ended up being all too much for a hungover Wayne Kerr and I decided it was best to skip breakfast and get our morning meeting over and done with so I could have a beer as soon as possible .
^ Local commune office on the east coast of Phu Quoc Island – I spent a few hours here before ducking off to a local fishing village to find a beer and a bite to eat
^ Small fishing village on the east coast of Phu Quoc Island we went to for breakfast - cop the serenity
^ This lady had crabs
^ We found these lovely looking marine snails which we thought would go down best with beer at 9.30am in the morning
^ Start of breakfast – the idea was to eat all the guts out of the snails and put the empty shells in the bowl in the middle
^ Half a dozen beers later
^ The lady selling the shells also had some live seahorses – Vietnamese “Vitamin V”
^ We also lucked upon this dugong dick – all I could think of when I saw this sucker was that I was very lucky indeed that I hadn’t been born a female dugong. Note the barbed head with the large testes sewn on down below. The only wanted about US$2 for this .