Relax Inn Hotel Male

... on sticks ;0) Anyway there is lots to do here mainly revolving around the crystal blue waters and the amazing marine life that surrounds us so far we have clocked up a number of sightings which we will add videos of and pics at a later date list as follows i think should be a great blog for Jack, Darcy, Elsa & Elin and i expect all 4 of them to know all the listed fish before our next Skype session ;0) Baby Sharks1 year old sharks ...

... to vsichni ve zdravi prezili. Nas treti ponor byl krasny, videli jsme spoustu uzasnych koralu, ryb a taky 2 zraloky. Stala se nam jenom mensi nehoda, kdyz jsem omylem Nunovi vyrazila regulator z pusy, byl moc rad. :-) No nemam oci vzadu. Posledni den zacalo prset a dost foukat, takze jsme si mylseli, ze snad ani neodletime, cesta lodi k molu byla vic nez mokra a hydroplan se na vlnach pekne kymacel, ale nakonec to vse probehlo v pohode a my potom z Male vyrazili do Colomba.

... At sunset there are loads of small reef sharks that swim right up to the shore, they're pretty cool and don't bite! Met a lovely Scottish couple (Nicole and Andy) who were on honeymoon and had several too many drinks with them! The spa was well nice so we got a his and hers massage on tables next to each other, how sweet!? You got a free half hour for every hour so we had an hour an a half of pure heaven! They also have an ...

So, onto the Maldives then, arrived safely in Male', the Maldivian Capital at 10am, & more or less straight away was transferred onto a tiny 14 seater Seaplane for a 30 ...

... me to dive to 12 m depth accompanied by an instructor. Later that year I completed further training to Advanced Open Water level in Malta and Gozo. Another four years later and I'm back in Meeru. Enough experience now to be left alone to my diving with my excellent buddy - my husband, who started this all off in the first place by already being a diver before I met him. I'm absolutely hooked on this now and we ...

... had to dive down to cut the propeller and the rudder free. Later: Caught in another fishing net! Just now! Please listen on frequency 4420 every hour and channel 16, in case we need support. Thank you'. 4420 is SSB short wave radio, not all yachts have it, but we spoke to Pathfinder on the hour just as it was getting dark. They were severely stressed, the Iranian fishermen had cut them free again, didn't ask for money but did take a bottle of rum and whiskey, and ...

... of this little town. I end up asking a guy who looks like a tourist for some info and ends up he is from Italy, living here for a month now working as a seaplane pilot to the dotted islands. Can you say dream job? See, this is where my book I write someday would fictionally expand this interaction and I would end up seeing all of the islands by seaplane over a 6 month stay, but in reality he showed me the Internet spot I was looking for and bid adieu. Ah, enough entertainment ...

... water. Within a minute, we could see a shark fin starting to circle in. It was amazing. Within another 5 minutes we had 4 or 5 sharks circling around and grabbing at the fish part that was tied up. Jesse was taking ton of photos but many of these did not come out for some reason. He got one good one. I took lots as well with my digital - a bit tricky getting them in the dark even though the staff shone lights on them. Doug ran to get Melissa who we had tried ...

... were littered as far as the eye could see. After a quick dip (I waded my feet not thinking it terribly appropriate to go further than that), the kids picked up shells until we were escorted back to the centre of town where we picked up a VSO teacher and tromped off (well in the lorry) to some ancient ruins of a Budhist temple. It is estimated that the ruins are 2000 years old. Maldives was Budhist prior to the introduction of Islam in 1153 (I think that's the date I put in the ...

... This is a place where olive oil is found in the hair products section, balsamic vinegar can't be found, but expensive underwater housings for digital cameras can be purchased. This is a place that shuts down five times every day for "prayer time" and once a year for a whole month. Also to pray. This is a place where you can be stopped at the border for trying to bring in a cosmo (women in their underwear counts as porn and porn is illegal!), pork or ...