Christmas Day we are, after the Christmas Eve dance party risen somewhat later than usual. And that is also because we are here on (or before!) Normal office next door canopy. But this time we were so late that a Christmas breakfast no longer belonged to the possibilities. And in itself, we were not very hungry, although a hearty breakfast of eggs and bacon can do wonders after a night 
And, well, lunch is here already again 2 hours after breakfast ends, so no man overboard. And for good (in the shade, because it is the storm earlier this week completely cleared up and as always tropically warm and now mg wind) on a bed at the pool and the pool, we also do the male / female .
We move in time to start than at lunch because the stomachs quite what to rumble. What was left of the Christmas dinner we see in many variations back: baked clams, with several vegetable curries, duck breast, etc. But after copuleuze Christmas (and excessive eating the rest of our time here), we nevertheless particularly the delicious salads, "make your own sandwich" and mountain vegetables. During the afternoon we surely looking forward to a dip around 15 hours and if we come at the dive have 2 other couples with whom we have dived this week much the same thought. We also see that the next day a "full day trip searching for Whale Sharks" on the program. This trip will only take place if at least 8 divers and we write our 7th and 8th, the rest can thank us, for now, the boat in any case
We walk in with our water bottles on our backs and poor visibility is immediately apparent: it is not that we get a little blurred vision (we think 
), There is a lot of plankton in the water. With our noses in the sand and coral is still a great dive where we even still unknown to us and find unique nudibranche. And while we know this part of the reef now as our pocket, so we have not really bothered by the poor visibility. And after an hour we refreshed the water off at exit 5, for our old house where we sat in June. Just wash our stuff and then we also enjoy ourselves wash in the pool. Drink there and watch the sunset. Thus the Christmas holidays with right!
On Boxing Day we are again well before dawn to breakfast as we go on Whale Shark trip. We take the wooden boat, which takes almost 2 times as long as the plastic boat that we went last week. So plenty of time to enjoy what the diving dozing on the deck and chat to other guests. A diverse gezelschao with Austrians, Frenchmen, Belgians, Britons, a Norwegian dive guide and us. After a half hour sail, we were all on the lookout. We see several pods of dolphins jumping and playing but no sign of the Whale Sharks. If the national park we have sailed we turn around and we look for a good first dive site.
The underwater visibility is even worse than yesterday at the house reef. Would that be the reason that the fish and especially turtles appear closer than usual? One of the turtles is almost collided with Marije her video camera, but or again delivers beautiful images! After the first dive we bring our surface interval again by more squinting at the surface to Whale Sharks. But the other boats we encounter, we hear that they still have no luck that day. We conclude that the Whale Sharks, like the rest of the world fixed on Boxing Day to their parents and need somewhere in the file swimming, and clearly not at home. And the second dive we are still in the Mamigili Beyru Whale Shark sanctuary but unfortunately not so friendly between the giants ..... Whether they are there but not visible to us because once again becoming more and bad visibility. From more than 30 meters visibility earlier in the week to 20 on many dives to 10 and now sometimes even less.
We conclude the third dive of the day not to "hunt" on Whale Sharks but our happiness will try to Digurah Arches, halfway between the National Park and Vilamendhoo where regular mantas are seen (and we do them for the last 3 visits this site have seen 2 times). Along the way we have lunch (leftover from Christmas dinner seems again) and we see a Marlin up to 2 times the water and jump in the distance a school of dolphins. Also fun to watch, but everyone is a bit teleurgsteld that we have not seen the Whale Sharks. And yet the general tenor is that this is mainly to poor visibility, because they are almost always there. While ..... the last time we were Vilamendhoo we have them even during 1 of the 2 full day trips seen .... Perhaps the chance just 50%, after 4 full day trips in any case, our average.
The view in Digurah Arches is certainly not more than 10 meters, so a Manta that are not very curious, we will not come down here. Fortunately, the curious Stingrays and turtles too! So even though it feels a bit like swimming in pea soup, because now the sun has gone like the water rather than bright green, blue, it is nevertheless another nice dive. It's a long day on the boat and so we come again just before sunset on the island and prefer the shower over the pool and then a well deserved cold beer on the terrace.
Our last day of diving is on the 3rd Day and now we have chosen the selfinflickted wound of breakfast at 7 am. There are 2 dives on the program where strong currents can be expected. And despite our 500 + dives we hear this morning is certainly not the most experienced divers on board (with 5 instructors with 1000 or even 3000 + dives in the group). The guide Hussein check the flow and comes with the "encouraging" news that a medium current, and he is from the surface to the top of the reef at 15 meters just to see. So again restricted visibility. It looks like a stubborn mist of plankton ..... Broken Rock, our first dive of the morning, where we over for 9 hours already in the water, must be breathtaking when the water is clear but it's worth. Everywhere white tip reef sharks, large schools of fish suspended in the flow, a Honeycomb Eel and a beautiful canyon more than 30 meters where you can swim through it. For photos and video were not ideal conditions but a fantastic dive.
Then we sail to Vilamendhoo Thila, right to our own island, an underwater mountain exactly on the edge of the atoll where there is always a lot of current. The prediction is again a medium current, but we know that after this dive medium is a relative concept: we fight us along the reef at 25 meters depth to the edge and hang there like 12 flags side by side in the underwater storm. The visibility is now limited to a meter or 8, but nevertheless we see the major schools, the Sharks and Eagle Rays hunt the smaller stuff that flow right into their mouths are hunted. This was a great last dive of the holiday. Although we do feel that you should come back again to these dive sites in the clear blue sea again to see!
We spend the afternoon with lunch, a nap on a beach (you're still pretty tired of that flow diving ), The flushing of our diving equipment and arrange a massage at the Spa on our last day. A cocktail at sunset makes this Maldivian paradise completely finished! 
