After a great dinner ‘al frescoe’ in the garden, the moon was up and the lights were bright
Monthly Archives: December 2012
New Year with Boduberu
Taken a few minutes ago at the beach outside the dive center. This is a traditional ‘boduberu’ group from the village down the road, who perform with drums and chant. The dancing that goes with it is pretty infectious…. even I got my wiggle on for a few minutes with my neighbour’s 7 year old daughter.
Manta Action
Many thanks go to Viktor Fomenko from Kazakhstan who took this sweet picture of one of three mantas that we were lucky enough to see while diving in the last week.
Super shot!
Eeeek
I’m not sure what kind of spider this is. A Wolf Spider? I reckon my Dad will know, but seeing as he doesn’t often get on the internet… Mum, please ask him.
Here they’re called ‘Maali’ which means spider (surprise surprise). Anyone have any more specifics?
Clint Eastwood
I know what you’re thinking- do I have 8 eyes…. or only 6? You just gotta ask ya’self one question….
Do you think I can jump on you?
Well… do you?….Punk!
Honeycomb Moray
I haven’t seen one of these morays for a long time, but while drifting in to the atoll I luckily looked down at the right time and spotted one. Honeycomb morays are amazingly beautiful creatures. Even the inside of the mouth continues with same markings. They are very relaxed animals and allow you to come very close if you approach slowly and without any sudden movements.
Shaaaarks
We dived in the kandu for our second dive with Chef. Even at a maximum depth of 18m we were able to view Whitetip Reef sharks as well as the bigger, bulkier, bitier Grey Reef sharks.
Chef and turtle
Our newly certified Chef from the Reveries hotel. It’s hard to think that when he arrived in Laamu, he could not swim or even float comfortably. Time, patience, perseverance and hard work have all paid off and we welcome Chef to the PADI fold as an Open Water Certified Diver. Congratulations!
Ray Ray
A song title stolen from New Zealand’s group Fat Freddies Drop. we found this stingray at the newly discovered dive site named Uthuru Haa. It was sitting at around 20m and we were getting pretty low on deco time. Luckily Jude managed to get a few snaps. I think it is a feathertail stingray…. but it’s hard to tell.
Laamu Dive and Surf 