Today was the BEST day in the Maldives!!!!!!!
We had a resort boat take Kyle & I to an uninhabited, deserted island and drop us off for the day! :) It was super cool! We left at 9AM, and it was around a 30 min boat ride to the island. We had a couple coolers with food, drinks, wine, etc. They dropped us off and promised to be back later. Get the perimeter tour of our island via this link (do it!):
ISLE DE KRAY
It was a little strange that there was a nice pair of flip flops next to the make-shift chairs and swing that someone had made on the island (apparently local Maldivians like to use the island as a getaway spot as well). I kept imagining us fighting off a Maldivian cannibal. Haha. Thankfully, no one ever showed up. We had also read there was a resident chicken on this island that would come out for food when people came. I was pretty stoked for this said chicken as I had big plans to capture it and recreate a total Moana moment with the chicken in the boat with us. This chicken was not there... hopefully he was not someone else's dinner! So anyways... we had a blast and our day flew by! We had a picnic and drank wine on the beach, we swam with a ton of baby sharks that were all around the island, we made our mark in the sand, and we made our mark on a tree. It was a perfect day!
The boat did show up to get us eventually. I could have stayed the night on our island, but they wouldn't let us... plus, we had a night dive booked which we had to get back for. But check out the pictures below, and then read about our night dive!
So our night dive... that was so awesome as well! Night diving is always interesting to me. It is pitch black, so the only thing you see is what your light is shining on. Night time brings out very different creatures than day time, so always good to get a night dive in! We dove with blue dive lights and they gave us yellow filters for our dive goggles. OMG! I have never seen anything like it in my diving life. The coral looked like something you imagine seeing while on acid. Everything was ALIVE and GLOWING NEON... all the colors!!! I wish I could have captured it on the gopro, but I do not have a yellow filter which is the filter color necessary to see proper night colors. Bummer! It was amazing though. Even color-blind Kyle saw all the colors and was in awe. Red Snapper are on the hunt at night, and there were HUGE snapper using our dive lights to go after prey. They had warned us not to shine the light too long on fish we see unless we want them to be dinner for the snapper, so we were careful to try and not create a terrible destiny for the other fish around us. When the dive was over we had to walk back to the dive center (which was the complete opposite side of the island) with all of gear and tanks on. That part sucked, haha. The most amazing day though!!!!!!
ISLE DE KRAY
The boat did show up to get us eventually. I could have stayed the night on our island, but they wouldn't let us... plus, we had a night dive booked which we had to get back for. But check out the pictures below, and then read about our night dive!
So our night dive... that was so awesome as well! Night diving is always interesting to me. It is pitch black, so the only thing you see is what your light is shining on. Night time brings out very different creatures than day time, so always good to get a night dive in! We dove with blue dive lights and they gave us yellow filters for our dive goggles. OMG! I have never seen anything like it in my diving life. The coral looked like something you imagine seeing while on acid. Everything was ALIVE and GLOWING NEON... all the colors!!! I wish I could have captured it on the gopro, but I do not have a yellow filter which is the filter color necessary to see proper night colors. Bummer! It was amazing though. Even color-blind Kyle saw all the colors and was in awe. Red Snapper are on the hunt at night, and there were HUGE snapper using our dive lights to go after prey. They had warned us not to shine the light too long on fish we see unless we want them to be dinner for the snapper, so we were careful to try and not create a terrible destiny for the other fish around us. When the dive was over we had to walk back to the dive center (which was the complete opposite side of the island) with all of gear and tanks on. That part sucked, haha. The most amazing day though!!!!!!
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