Kam Hotel Male

... know this because it was 3 feet long and heading towards Alex at 530 this morningStingrays Feather tailed stingrays Giant sea crabsTrigger fish - currently nesting and therefore very aggressiveStar fishBright purple jelly fish on the beachDolphinsPossibly a sea turtle not yet confirmedMore baby sharksHermit crabsVariety of giant blue fish and colorful stripy fish that i can't remember the name of!   So next stop is Male airport and ...

... the water spa at the other end of the island which is really nice too. All round the resort they've got these cool curvy bed things to chill out on, they're so relaxing. We were allocated a restaurant to use most of the time but you can use any of the restaurants for breakfast and lunch and if you want to go for dinner, you just need to reserve a table. So we went up to the Sangu restaurant for lunch one day, scary ...

... slog den enorma fuktiga hettan emot oss och det kändes som att gå in i en bastu. Efter ytterligare en timme med "speedboat" var vi framme vid Kandooma, en vacker, grönskande, lugn liten ö med gnistrande vita stränder. Klockan var åtta på morgonen och vi hade varit vakna ett dygn. Rättare sagt två dygn eftersom man inte kunde sova en blund natten innan vi skulle åka. Sanden kändes som potatismjöl mellan tårna. Vattnet var så varmt att det knappast svalkade. Palmer ...

... cruise to where we were staying for the next 9 days. Derek & Maureen who we met in Sri Lanka were also staying on the same Island as us, Matt, Helen & her mozzie ...

... try to have a diving holiday once a year. Not always in such a wonderful place as Meeru, but we've had some excellent diving in the Mediterranean. Meeru is a beautiful island and is considered large among the other islands. You can walk around the entire island in about half an hour! Since our last visit they have added additional accommodation. These are luxury jacuzzi water villas. There are now two large ...

... them there were 200 Iranian fishing boats each with 7 mile floating nets between us and Oman! These nets on the surface are illegal and dangerous - dolphins get entangled in them - but I didn't care to swap legal niceties with Iranian fishermen at night if I could avoid it. We decided that our best chance was to sail if we could hoping that nets would scrape under our keel avoid our folding propeller and miss the rudder; also to divert round anything looking like a pair of ...

... the last few months anyways, right? ha. I got a good sleep despite a bit of anxiety (good way)a bout the sailing. Seriously can't believe I am shifting onto a boat tonight for a few weeks (I think). Today I was up at 7am on my own and headed out on the town to run some basic errands a traveler must such as burning pics to CD, new journal, etc... Everything in a new country with a foreign tongue (here the 300,000 Maldivians speak Dhivehi) and some speak English. But, like in India ...

... wake up once but didn't want to insist she get up unless there was something to see. She arrived very sleepy but amazed to see all the sharks and rays. The Maldivians were getting a bit adventurous and I think were trying to grab the shark to do I'm not sure what. There was a lot of quick jumpings out of the water and I was getting nervous that someone was going to lose a foot. I thought we should leave so as not to encourage them to be too adventurous. They ...

... travelog). Pictures are included in this entry. I kind of missed the rest of the day after that - my stomach took a turn for the worse when we went to a local cafe and I smelled food. The noodles were quite delicious but after one small taste I knew the movement internally was still happening so I stayed on the boat and downed gravol for the next island. Now I know that in fact I still do get sea sick (I thought it had disappeared) and that I need to pop some heavy duty stuff (no ...

... Christian bible, not to mention any sort of alcohol... but where you can smoke your brains out and watch excessive violence on TV. Ahh, the logic... refreshing in a round about sort of way, wouldn't you say? This is a bustling and fascinating place that produces a strange claustrophobic sensation deep within, knowing that driving 5 minutes to the other end of the island is as far as you can get. It's the Canadian coming out in me... all that VAST VAST ...