{"id":29379,"date":"2019-06-09T22:23:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T14:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=29379"},"modified":"2026-03-15T13:48:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T05:48:24","slug":"10-days-in-maldives-day-03-snorkeling-02","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2019\/06\/09\/10-days-in-maldives-day-03-snorkeling-02\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Days in Maldives \u2013 Day 03 \u2013 Snorkeling #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our guesthouse host Sameer really took on board how we fared for our maiden snorkeling outing yesterday morning, and planned something simpler this time: a house reef just off Huraa about 300 meters from the shoreline and thus just 4 minutes by our speedboat that was coasting along leisurely to the spot. In addition, the water level was just up to an adult\u2019s waist level, so we adults could try the experience this time sans life vests.<\/p>\n<p>What should have been just perfect weather &#8211; we stepped off in bright sunny weather &#8211; suddenly turned overcast, and by the time we were all in the water, it rained! The waters got pretty choppy and the wife was a little fearful for the kids. Sameer assured us that we\u2019d be fine and encouraged us to keep going: and as it turned out, the rain died off in just a few minutes, the clouds cleared thereafter, and the sea was calm again. Though not before both of us parents were honestly pretty nervous!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blog-2019-maldives-day-03-2019-maldives-day-03-P6090059.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blog-2019-maldives-day-03-2019-maldives-day-03-P6090059.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blog-2019-maldives-day-03-2019-maldives-day-03-P6090059-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blog-2019-maldives-day-03-2019-maldives-day-03-P6090059-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Like yesterday, most of the corals were dead, but there were a few live ones here and there. There was quite a bit of marine life even then. We didn\u2019t see schools of fishes this time, but we did catch a large sea turtle casually swimming about. Being able to swim with the turtle alone made this trip super worth it again.<\/p>\n<p>A quick edit and collation of three GoPro 7 clips of the turtle!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1CIgAM9sZyM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Continued in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2019\/06\/10\/10-days-in-maldives-day-04-sand-bank\/\">next post<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our guesthouse host Sameer really took on board how we fared for our maiden snorkeling outing yesterday morning, and planned something simpler this time: a house reef just off Huraa about 300 meters from the shoreline and thus just 4<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2019\/06\/09\/10-days-in-maldives-day-03-snorkeling-02\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  10 Days in Maldives \u2013 Day 03 \u2013 Snorkeling #2<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[657,653],"class_list":["post-29379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-traveling","tag-gopro-7","tag-maldives-2019","wpcat-17-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blog-sea-turtle.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38525,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29379\/revisions\/38525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}