Another glorious day in the Maldives, and Suz and I went snorkelling first thing, as I wanted to show her all the little fishies! We weren’t disappointed either, so pushing it a little we swam over to the neighbouring island, blissfully unaware that there was a big notice telling us not to as it was a private island! Oops!
Whilst I was posting yesterdays blog post afterwards, we saw a huge ray just cruise under the walkway right by the beach, I think Suz wanted to jump right in then!
Our dolphin watching trip was this afternoon though, so we duly varnished ourselves in factor 50 and headed out to the jetty to catch our dhoni (traditional Maldivian boat)
Our keen eyed guide headed up top whilst the rest of us kept a sharp eye out from down below, and it wasn’t long before Suz shouted out that there was something off the starb’rd side (all right, she shouted ‘What’s that over there?’, but you get my nautical reference), and it turned out to be a huge turtle taking a breath at the surface before diving under before anyone had a chance to train their cameras on it.
We motored further out towards the next atoll, and after about an hour, eagle eyed Suz shouted out ‘flying fish!’, but again they disappeared sharpish.
We thought we’d had a fruitless trip, and that our cetacean friends were being shy, but just before we were about to give up, they showed up out of the blue (literally)
but didn’t hang around to play for very long, though clearly some of them, further out were having a ball:
Dolphin executes a perfect triple salko loop with pike and is awarded 6.0 by the judges.
after that we motored back through the heat, though at least being out on the water meant we had a breeze, and went back to the bungalow to deal with the inevitable sun burn, though not before trying to relocate every hermit crab that I came across on the path home – some of them are so tiny and cute, in a crab-like way!
I’m off diving tomorrow! Wheee!
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