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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...

Filed under: best of, Four Seasons Kuda Huraa, ocean, eco-sustainable

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...

Filed under: best of, Four Seasons Landaa Giraavaru, ocean, eco-sustainability

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...

Filed under: best of, Dhiggiri, ocean

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...

Filed under: best of, ocean, Velassaru

Maldives Tour 2011 – Day 13: Kurumba Farewell

Published 1 August 11 9:52 AM | Maldives Complete

Kurumba is perhaps the most unsung house reef there is. You don’t often hear about it being mentioned as one of the tops, but I must say that Kurumba is simply the best house reef we have ever snorkelled. And we have snorkelled dozens. Especially...

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Sex on the Reef

Published 13 June 11 4:52 PM | Maldives Complete

Now that I have your attention! (you know, sometimes titles just write themselves…though ‘Polypamory’ was a really close runner-up). The Maldives is renowned for newly betrothed couples consummating their nuptials with a honeymoon celebration...

Filed under: Sheraton Full Moon, romance, event, ocean, fun

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...

Filed under: best of, Coco Palm Dhuni Kolhu, ocean, eco-sustainability

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 ‘...

Filed under: best of, diving, Nika, ocean, Velidhu, Gangehi

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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Great House Reefs

Published 26 November 10 3:12 PM | Maldives Complete

  One of the first questions a true Maldives aficionado asks of a resort is ‘How good is the House Reef?’ When I first heard the advice to seek out the best house reef, I didn’t even know what a house reef was. We arrived at Laguna Beach (the resort...

Filed under: snorkelling, Jumeirah Vittaveli, house reefs, ocean, destination

Best of the Maldives: Dive Site - Alimatha

Published 25 August 10 1:33 AM | Maldives Complete

Maldives is one of the world’s leading diving destinations right up there with the Red Sea, Great Barrier Reef, Caymans, and Belize. But which is the top resort for diving among this top destination. Certainly a subject for much debate and hair...

Filed under: best of, Tim Godfrey, diving, TripAdvisor, Alimatha, Dhiggiri, ocean