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Here’s another shot of the beach at Pekan Teluk Bahang, Penang, Malaysia. If you take a look at my other photo of Pekan Teluk Bahang, you can see these two boats behind the buoy flags of the boat in the foreground. It’s no so obvious that it’s raining in this image.
I still have vague memories of the day I took off to ride around the island. I took off in an anti-clockwise direction from Georgetown staying as much as possible to the coastal road through Tanjong Bungah (don’t know what Tanjong means but Bungah means ‘flowers’) and Batu Feringgi (which translates as ‘Foreigner’s Rock’) before pitching up an Pekan Teluk Bahang (Teluk Bahang means ‘Bay of the Heat Wave’, no idea what Pekan means or if google maps is even correct).
Do you remember that scene in Slumdog Millionaire when the boys are hustling at the Taj Mahal? When I looked at the scan below as it came off my scanner earlier this year, that was the scene that flashed into my mind. Except this photo was taken in August 1989 outside a temple in Penang, Malaysia.
It was, as you can see, a grey day. The large vessel and the large cranes lurking in the haze are in Butterworth. Apparently, Penang Island and its main settlement, Georgetown, were the first British settlement on the Malaysian peninsular and date back to 1786.
