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Best of the Maldives: Guitar Sharks – W Retreat

Published 27 November 12 8:37 PM | Maldives Complete

    “Swimming in, lord, the deep blue sea. I'd have a, all you pretty women, fishin' after me.” Jimi Hendrix would have been 70 today. And I’m sure that he would be riffing today. Often considered the greatest guitarist of all time ...

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Best of the Maldives: Whale Shark Odds – Holiday Island

Published 20 November 12 3:47 PM | Maldives Complete

Perhaps the ultimate underwater treasure in the Maldives is a whale shark sighting. Most of the time, the biggest animal that you can see there. And a paragon gentle-giant docility and prehistoric charm. And number of spots are known hang outs for these...

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Best of the Maldives: Seahorses – Kuredu

Published 21 June 12 10:13 PM | Maldives Complete

    The Queen has been such a supporter of of all of the June Jubilee activities including rocking out at the Buckingham Palace Concert which is probably not her dream Saturday night out. Rather, one’s favourite day in June is most definitely...

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Best of the Maldives: Longest House Reef – Soneva Fushi

Published 13 June 12 1:59 AM | Maldives Complete

    If instead of endless diving , you want to do endless house reef snorkelling, then Soneva Fushi is your best bet. It has the longest house reef in the Maldives and a fine one at that. Over a kilometre and a half (nearly a mile long) of aquatic...

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Best of the Maldives: Fluro-Diving – Kuredu / Komandoo / Vakarufalhi

Published 12 May 12 1:56 PM | Maldives Complete

      For an even closer investigation into reef life, state-of-the-art ‘fluro-diving’ has come to the Maldives. Night dives shed a whole new light (or lack thereof) on the undersea world. Night dives never had much appeal to me because...

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Best of the Maldives: Baby Turtles – Four Seasons Kuda Huraa

Published 28 January 12 10:27 AM | Maldives Complete

A real ‘ Born Free’ story in the Maldives are the turtle nurseries that a few resorts support. Our family delighted at the nursery tank that Filtheyo had and visiting it fostered our daughter Isley’s love of turtles and her adoption...

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Best of the Maldives: Dolphins – Rihiveli Beach

Published 27 January 12 7:5 AM | Maldives Complete

The best free divers in the ocean are our aquatic cousins the cetaceans. As I said yesterday, that’s not ‘free diving’ as in ‘free beer’. Nor is it as in ‘born free’. But in Rihiveli Beach it is. Rihiveli have...

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Best of the Maldives: Coral – Park Hyatt Hadahaa

Published 16 October 11 2:34 PM | Maldives Complete

If the underwater stars that dazzle you are star fish, starlets and feather stars, then Park Hyatt Hadahaa is the place to swim to and at. Adrian Neville tweeted last week, “ Park Hyatt house reef, the best corals of any resort bar none. But oddly...

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Best of Maldives – Fish Breeding – Four Seasons Landaa Giraavaru

Published 12 September 11 1:2 AM | Maldives Complete

Question: For those who have been paying attention this past week, what is this a picture of? Answer: Now that is a Nemo fish! I know because it has the three white stripes ! [Soundeffect]: Buzzzz! Wrong. Actually, the Maldive species ‘ Amphiprion...

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Best of the Maldives: Nurse Sharks - Dhiggiri

Published 25 August 11 7:5 PM | Maldives Complete

  These creatures should get an endorsement contract with ‘ Night Nurse’ , the cold medication to help you sleep. It seems all these Nurse Sharks do is sleep. During the daytime when most dives occur that is. My wife Lori got to see a couple of them...

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Best of the Maldives: Fish Frenzy - Velassaru

Published 14 August 11 8:6 AM | Maldives Complete

A perfectly tranquil lake-like ocean with shimmering shades of mottled blue...then suddenly it erupts with a hundred tiny splashes. What the...? This is fish hunting. Big fish going after little fish. The little fish congregate in big schools for some...

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Best of the Maldives: Protected Marine Areas – Coco Palm Dhuni Kolhu

Published 12 June 11 4:35 PM | Maldives Complete

  In the spirit of World Oceans Day , the Maldives established a record number of protected marine areas last week in what many consider to be the most spectacular atoll in the Maldives, Baa. The map above links through to the UNESCO map of the areas...

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Best of the Maldives: Diving - Nika

Published 11 March 11 5:16 AM | Maldives Complete

Question asked on Quora last week ‘ Where are the best scuba diving sites in the Maldives ?’ I turned to my two trusty Maldives diving resources... Tim Godfrey’s ‘ Dive Maldives’ Sam Harwood and Rob Bryning’s ‘...

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Best of the Maldives: Aquatic Topiary – Four Seasons Landaa Giraavaru

Published 2 February 11 12:21 AM | Maldives Complete

  While the ‘ house reef’ is the ‘main event’ in snorkelling, lagoon snorkelling can be its own treat. During our first, uninitiated trip to the Maldives, we spent nearly the whole week there delightedly snorkelling among the modest coral and rock...

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Best of the Maldives: Manta Research – Four Seasons Landaa Giraavaru

Published 11 January 11 4:26 PM | Maldives Complete

  Mantas are the most magical creatures I have seen in the wild. They have an a otherworldly aura to them that seems almost like a beneficent alien spaceship. And they too appreciate spa treatments that they get from wrasse fish at ‘ cleaning stations...

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