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What is this place? What is the history behind it?
I am at a Bond locale I want to offer up when the opportunity comes available.
@mtm over to you mate.
My usual cryptic, obscure opening image. If that's not enough clues can follow.
Photo taken this morning, the rocky foreground and far left and right of the image are not directly associated with Bond. In the distance, well, that is.
I'd guess Silva's Island
Update: a wider view, not a real clue visually other than dig deeper I guess.
Notice the foreground is an island, with the point of view looking at the mainland and a major city.
What relates to Bond is in between.
But similarly spectacular blue waters in that area of the world used to film LTK.
They did as well, but from Key West you definately can't see Miami (I hope I won't need to eat these words ;-)).
It's true LTK filmed all around Key West and a couple spots along 7 Mile Bridge. All land-based though I believe, exception is maybe the truck with Sanchez driving off the raised highway nto the water.
For the answer you should go deeper, if I can say that.
Surprisingly, the island location I'm looking for as the answer (not the in-between) pretty much translates into a line of dialogue from Moore Bond in OP.
Following up, Bond in OP says he will visit a place (described in English), that pretty much translates (in the local language) to the location I stayed at. Which relates to the filming of LTK.
My hotel and its rooms looked out on the water, so I walked down and took the photos from beach level.
The Bond-related location is about midway between the rocks in the foreground and the (major) city in the distance. But associated with the side I was on.
The locale is also further **west** than other places mentioned. Not so well-known by name, I admit.
Right on both counts @ArapahoeBondFan and thanks for the correction, I adjusted my post above.
Isla Mujeres. Small island, about 5 miles top to bottom. So as happenstance I planned to attend a wedding in the vicinity of Cancun Mexico, and used On the Tracks of 007 and other references to see how close Bond filming locations were to Isla Mujeres where we were staying. Was thinking by highway and back on the mainland there might be something within one or two hours.
https://www.onthetracksof007.com/maps
Turns out the area of some underwater filming was walking distance from my hotel. I did some snorkeling and celebrated with a Paloma which hit the spot. Yellow circles call out the location.