Holiday Inn Malac Male

... buys souvenirs worth of $300?? But after that we were in no way capable of spending anymore anywhere lol! So we went back to our boat, tipped the guide ($20) and went back. Back at the resort we went to Baan Hura fro dinner. It was a nice Thai restaurant. It is located on the neighbouring resort so you have to take a ferry ride to the restaurant and back. The ferry runs at the interval of 10 mins so not a long wait required. Again the food was good ...

... computer. This made the national TV news and they wanted me to go play with the computer so it looked like white people were using it. I was happy to help out. I didn't make the news that night, but my picture was taken a bunch so I will try to snag a paper tonight. We had some tea with his old boss, and they mainly discussed Maldivian politics. Since I can barley understand what they are saying I stared at the crabs and the ocean just enjoying the fact that I am on the opposite ...

... surface swims back to the boat. We got to snorkle with Whale sharks at Whale shark point on the second day. I've never seen one before. Most of the others got to see it on the first time we jumped in, I didn't see anything. The whaleshark disappeared and we followed it and jumped in one more time. Again I didn't see it. This happened 2 more times until Moosa, the divemaster literally threw me from ...

... we saw another 6 fishing boats on radar, one of which tried to aggressively chase us but couldn't catch up, another asked for water which we obliged and the third, and last boat, was very friendly informing us they had indeed been on the boat for a month, were from Sri Lanka. After we shared some final cigarettes, they kept waving, dancing on the deck saying thank you and goodbye. These men/boys in particular seemed genuinely sweet up on their bow in the traditional skirt ...

... and thanks to another sweet human at an airport, my cards shall be sent. Every airport, I end up having to ask a local shop owner to drop my cards in a post box as I always forget about that until last moment. But, I love how sweet people are. And, this time, I gave him a dollar or two and he ran out to hand me chocolate as a thank you gift for "letting" him send them. Ha! In line for the Maldives flight I met a nice guy who was so sweet giving me advice on possible, possible ...

... sand and floated in the strong ocean current outside our bungalow. We missed the snorkeling boat (having slept in) so spent two lazy days swimming, walking and lounging (and eating of course). I was in the small museum on the island and looking at photos of song and dance again and thinking - too bad we didn't get to see any dancing and music. That night after supper we were playing some heavy duty table tennis and what should occur but a Maldivian cultural night. Melissa ...

... It might have something to do with the adjustments he made to my back. He gave me some herbs also but I've taken them at a very minimal dose - not knowing what they are. Everything is written in Chinese of course. I will ask him about them again today. So, Margaret, if you are reading this I can't check out the ingredients to check with you!! The biggest change since the last update is the commencement of Ramadan (Ramazan here) on September 24th. This affected Doug ...

... time) with our toy boys!! They persuaded us to go night fishing that night and the memories of Ben's failed attempts in India came flooding back, but we agreed as there was nothing else to do and it is free because of the voucher we got when we checked in. We spend the whole after noon drinking, laughing, playing pool and enjoying life. So by the time we get to the boat Vicky is staggering all over (soz girl had to put that on) and I was worried she may fall over board ...

... Then there was a Taiwanese girl, who had brought all her dive gear new and hadn't used it before, so half of it didn't work or didn't fit. Then there was me, an Aussie who turned up with no dive gear, absolutely nothing, and had to rent it all from a dive shop in Male that cost almost as much as the bloody dive safari itself. A lesson learnt for next time... So, 3 times a day without fail we would all be herded onto the dohni like penguins in our wetsuits, the dohni would seek ...

Well the last email was to let you know we where off to The Maldives that Very night well we arrived at 2am and landed by private boat on our paradise Island of Embuda. Woke in the morning to a beautiful turquoise sea hot sun And white sand just like in the Bounty advert. Huge flying foxes in the Coconut trees (harmless except ...