It is 11:23 p.m. on Saturday night, and I should already be in my bed, dreaming of the millions of fish that I met this afternoon under water! But I could not pass up the opportunity to speak, even in just a few words of my reconciliation with diving in the Maldives. My disastrous dating experience Eve of 2000 around Kuredu Island, North Male 'had left a bitter taste and a bit of skepticism regarding my dives at North Island favorites (Seychelles , Mauritius, Reunion). So it was about time I rectify the shooting, or rather, I offer a second chance to understand the enthusiasm of my friends and readers divers to the Maldives.
That's it! Thanks to Alexis Vincent and his team of TGI Various, here I am reconciled within 24 hours meeting with the Maldivian waters! Yes, the visibility is not always perfect (rather murky this morning, this afternoon very clear early in the dive and less clear one hour later), but it's also what makes the wealth of wildlife around. The fish should be as greedy as me is an understatement!
I mentioned this here yesterday, so I made this morning my little dive PADI Guidance 100%. Understand Dump mask, a simulated out of air, and dropped from a nozzle. Balance = I'm ready to dive! I am being a bit sarcastic but actually I find these little tests at watering very useful and will allow the dive centers also test the ease of the diver in the water before taking them to the current passing, and the diver who dives less frequently to evacuate his stress over this small dive effortless. Finally, this is not such a bad idea. Especially Alexis has shown pretty relaxed, but uncompromising security. Then he kept making me a little recognition in a background of 8 meters maximum, a small coral garden of little interest if it is the multitude of reef fish (a nursery!) And water temperature . Because here in May and the Maldives, the gauge indicates ... 30 ° in the water! We stayed only 26 minutes under water, but I did not want to leave!
By this afternoon cons ... Mmm ...
After saving a small break (read: the pool terrace overlooking the lagoon + lunch salad seafood feet in the sand and dessert to fall backwards but had to fall straight on my hips), return to water but for all other divers. Wow ... I'll speak to Bathala House Reef Monday, falling to very nice Bathala Island in Ari atoll. I can not tell you now: we have spent an hour under water and I have no words to describe this dive already! Especially since I was promised another dive even more spectacular for tomorrow morning. Meet at 8:45 on the dock to board. On the program, the site of Fish Head, one of the best diving in the Maldives seems (you know ???). I talked to three people this evening at dinner, and all had stars in their eyes. I wonder if I will not take note of what under the water finally. Too bad the Mac is not sealed, and I regret not having a camera underwater!
So here I am very impatient, but I must first get a little more to enjoy!
The clock is ticking to counter jet lag, call me the pillow, the sheet trembled with impatience and my eyelids close. I can not see the keyboard, my fingers wander alone like an agitated trance uncontrollable buttons Galvanized ... Here I am again under water, as sharks and triggerfish and barracuda, and ...
Tomorrow!
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It is true that the resort in the Maldives dive-masters are passing all kinds of divers and prefer to check their water quality before sending them into the stream.
At the Kanthila Bathala to do it is another thing that the house reef. When there's juice is full of gray sharks o)
Fish Head, you were not lying, it's a nice site with a lot of Napoleon
If you offer Thila Maya, do it at night and not day to see the white tips and hunt big fish swallowing the barracuda
In fact, you are what resort?
How?
Oh, it's a riddle ...
So, come, come, Doctor Watson ..
According to the map is in the north-east of Ari, a resort where we plunge easily Bathala and Fish head. So in the sector, we have:
- Bathala Island, but it is an island where the Italian food is not terrible, so it is not
- Maayafushi, also an Italian island, very club. No it's not here either
- Stay more than Halaveli, with its 3 restaurants, a spa, it makes me seem more consistent that TGI Diving have a diving center ...
I won?
Alimata Hello,
It was not a riddle, I just forgot to report it and then I'll write more specifically on the Halaveli Resort on my other blog, http://www.luxedailleurs.com , do you like least.
But you're right, trendy club Italian food mass, it is not my cup of tea or a few days at times when there is no choice and that the site itself supersedes the interests of table. But focus on greed or not is a huge debate ...
Anyway, I read your comment this morning just before going diving. So big thank you because of the sudden I was looking for the famous and napoleons ... wow! ... What incredible site! ... I took full view, from the launch. And as the dive yesterday afternoon was not bad either, it is imperative that I write these two this afternoon, before we forget 70%! This would be a pity ...
I do not know yet if I'll Thila Maya, but tomorrow I go back on the side of Bathala. I could not remember the site that you indicated this morning, so I ask tonight for tomorrow.
Thank you for taking the time to learn! It helps to sort and go to the essentials. If other readers have wandered divers in the corner, they do not hesitate to also give their opinion and advice.
Oh my goodness, what suspense ... I am disappointed. Well, I look forward to the next post. Good splashing!
