DAY 7 - South Ari Atoll

Hello from the South end of the Maldives! We did three dives here again today - the first one looking for whale sharks...no luck; the second one at the manta cleaning station....no luck; and the 3rd one off a beautiful little island with lots of schooling fish!

Although we got skunked on both whale sharks and manta today, we had 3 beautiful dives! Eagle rays, mobula rays, large stingrays, white tip reef sharks, blacktip reef sharks, thousands of blue-lined yellow snapper and loads of other beautiful creatures. The first dive site was covered in fantastic table corals...some of the largest we've seen anywhere in the world.....

We'll try again tomorrow looking for whale sharks. Actually, while we were off on the first dive off the dhoni, the Manthiri was out along the reef as well and found a small one not too far behind us! It's the luck of the draw, of course, nothing is guaranteed in Nature and it's a darn big ocean...that whale shark could have been 100 yards behind us the whole dive and we might not have even seen it anyway....cross our fingers and hope for better luck tomorrow.....

And we had the prettiest sunset we've seen in a long time so enjoy the photos from today's adventures everyone.