Maldives pics/vid

[jcs11236]

Went to the Maldives last week. Saw hundreds of fish and corals while snorkeling. Thought i would share. Also visited the coral nursery at my resort. They are one of the few resorts helping to help regrow our coral reefs.

 

[JonnyJ]

Where did you stay? Looks amazing.

 

[jcs11236]

a few more

 

[SIReefer]

Really nice, thanks for sharing.

 

[jcs11236]

Thanks Jonny. I stayed at Anantara Veli. Great Resort.
There is so much sea life under each hut. Its amazing.

 

[jcs11236]

http://youtu.be/UEYUfMRV1H8
here is a short vid of a snorkel trip i did near by the resort. It was nuts!
All pics taken with iphone4 in Drisuit waterproof case

 

[jcs11236]

heres a few more.
during low tides the coral are sitting in no water all night until the tide comes back in. its pretty crazy seeing the corals and fish drying out every night

 

[jcs11236]

heres one more vid
thanks for looking
http://youtu.be/GH3-Sl1MMG8

 

[kakado]

Very nice, resort looks great. Any more pics of coral nursery?

 

[Euroreefer]

Nice, thanks for sharing. I would like to go there one dayrangehat

 

[reefman]

great pic/vid. Thks for sharing. definitely a great place to vacation.

 

[jcs11236]

Thanks guys. Sorry Kakado. That's all I got. The marine biologist was away during my stay so I wasn't able to get the whole tour which included snorkeling out over the coral nursery to see there progress

 

[mferrufino]

Beautiful!

 

[shroomie]

Great stuff, thanks for sharing.

 

[piranhapat]

That was unbelievable beautiful. Never saw so much fish and coral in such shadow waters. Awesome .....,

 

[walnuts24]

Awesome stuff!

If you don't mind me asking, how do you get there (stops, time, airline) and what is the travel situation like?

Did you book through a travel agent or do it yourself?

 

[jcs11236]

Thanks everyone. I booked everything myself separately. Flights are pretty crazy. Takes around 24 hours to get there. From JFK to Dubai (Emirates) which is 13 hours. Then 6 hour layover. Then a 4 hour flight to Male and then a 45 min boat ride to island. It's a once in a lifetime experience. I have gone snorkeling several places but nothing like this.
The craziest thing was hearing/seeing fish out of water all night due to low tide. Coral were bone dry all night until like 2 am when tide started coming in

Those videos were taken wit iPhone so quality is pretty bad but there was thousands of fish out by that island. Sting rays were circling us while we snorkel. Words can explain what we saw. My wife got scared and had to go back on boat. Lol

 

[LongIslandAndy]

Thanks for sharing, that was some diversity of fish

 

[Alex]

That looks like a great way to just get out of bed and jump in the water.Just amazing.

 

[jcs11236]

This is the main coral that was under each bungalow. There is tons of it. Not sure what coral it is. Has blue tips