Sunday in the Maldives! Today we had island hopping on the agenda. :)
We started with the inhabited Maldivian island of Feeali. We learned about what they do, and toured the island. The boats below are tuna fishing boats. They leave at 10PM and come back at 10AM with TONS of large tuna. That appears to be the largest source of income on the island, although they must be paid very little. It is extremely hot and humid year-round and these houses do not have A/C. Think Houston summer year-round with no A/C. Plus, the religion is mainly Islam so the women are fully covered. I am not sure how they do it.
Original walls on the island were made of coral. It is now illegal to take coral from the ocean so these are old walls. The tree is an extremely old banyan tree... it was very pretty and the coolest spot on the island, haha!
A ton of HUGE fruit bats live in this tree (right). We were SO hot and ready to get back on the boat at this point. We had lunch, and then stopped between islands on the way back for snorkeling. All of the snorkeling and scuba in the Maldives is amazing.
When we got back to the resort we did a little more snorkeling on the house reef. We were definitely blessed to be able to just hop into the water and have such a nice reef right there! Most islands aren't that way!
After that, we showered and then headed to the sunset bar to get a table and watch sunset. Kyle enjoyed a cigar. :) I don't know about you, but I could DEFINITELY get used to this view regularly....
We started with the inhabited Maldivian island of Feeali. We learned about what they do, and toured the island. The boats below are tuna fishing boats. They leave at 10PM and come back at 10AM with TONS of large tuna. That appears to be the largest source of income on the island, although they must be paid very little. It is extremely hot and humid year-round and these houses do not have A/C. Think Houston summer year-round with no A/C. Plus, the religion is mainly Islam so the women are fully covered. I am not sure how they do it.
Pre-School building is above. Weekdays in the Maldives are Sunday-Thursday. Friday and Saturday are weekends, so the kids were actually in school when we were visiting. There is a newer (and nicer) school that was built and gifted from Japanese government on the island as well. It has all of the grades at that location. The primary language taught is English, but they can pretty much learn any other language as well.
The island hospital (below). There is one doctor and 3 nurses working here. They are closed on Friday and Saturday, so you cannot get sick on those days. Or else you will have to find a [very expensive] way to Male or somewhere else with available care.
Original walls on the island were made of coral. It is now illegal to take coral from the ocean so these are old walls. The tree is an extremely old banyan tree... it was very pretty and the coolest spot on the island, haha!
A ton of HUGE fruit bats live in this tree (right). We were SO hot and ready to get back on the boat at this point. We had lunch, and then stopped between islands on the way back for snorkeling. All of the snorkeling and scuba in the Maldives is amazing. 
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