Dolphin cruise
Trip Start
Jul 11, 2012
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Trip End
Jul 18, 2012
Vihamanaafushi, Kaafu Atoll, Maldives
Saturday, July 14, 2012
So today after another champagne breakfast (I believe I could get used to that) we went for some snorkeling which is, perhaps a little bit to our surprise, quite appreciated by both the kids. Especially Tine loves it and we nearly spent 2 hours in the water. Good thing about this location is that very nice corals (with a lot of fish) can be found close to the beach - or should I say right AT the beach.
After the lunch we spent some time at the pool with the mandatory daily cocktails and then off to the pier for the 'dolphin/evening cruise'. Luckily there were 2 boats as there were quite some candidates.
After a 30 minutes 'drive' (or how is it called in a boat?) we still didn't see any of these friendly mammals so I got a bit worried. But then luckily we spotted them. The kind of dolphins living around here are the rather small 'spinners' species - and their size doesn't help to catch them on film. I estimate we shot over 100 pics the 3 of us, only to get let's say 20 of them actually havings dolphins on them. We do have a lot of ocean views though :-). Removing the blurred ones and the ones with only very small sightings, we'll end up with about 5 pics. But it is still very much worth the trip - even without taking into account the 'free-flowing' champagne ;)
