{"id":29493,"date":"2019-06-23T12:37:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T04:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=29493"},"modified":"2026-03-15T13:43:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T05:43:58","slug":"10-days-in-maldives-day-09-olhuveli-by-sunrise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2019\/06\/23\/10-days-in-maldives-day-09-olhuveli-by-sunrise\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Days in Maldives – Day 09 – Olhuveli by Sunrise"},"content":{"rendered":"

The third in my series of posts covering Olhuveli by day, night, and finally \u2014 at sunrise. The lightweight Sirui T-024X Carbon Fiber Tripod and C-10S Ball Head was carted along for this Maldives trip. And after two earlier attempts to capture morning sunrises on Days 03 and 06 @ Huraa Island where the sun refused to show amidst very heavy early morning cloud cover, I finally got lucky on Day 09 @ Olhuveli. Granted, I was feeling pretty awful at this point of the stay \u2014 I didn’t realize that I’d been struck by dengue fever until I returned home to Singapore \u2014 but still pulled myself together to get up at 5:20AM \u2014 Male time \u2014 for a morning sunrise shoot at the boardwalk leading to our water villa. The actual timing at Olhuveli was an hour after Male time, but for easier reference \u2014 and also on account that as much as Olhuveli would have liked, they really do not seem to have their own timezone, not according to Google anyway haha \u2014 I’ve left the timings as Male time here.<\/p>\n

Our ang mo bud joined me for this one \u2014 he walked 15 minutes from his room to get to my vantage location even \u2014 and we were treated to a spectacular morning sunrise. The sun was scheduled to come up at 5:58AM this morning, though looking at the various time-stamps of the photos, we really only got to see the sun rise above the horizon’s cloud layer later than that.<\/p>\n

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At 5:58AM.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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At 6:09AM.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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At 6:13AM.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I was all decked out: with the Sony A73 mounted on the Sirui, the Insta360 One X on its own monopod, and the beach chair from Decathlon.:)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Check out Matt’s dedication! There’s a photo of him lying prone on the beach even to take the morning sunrise pictures!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A perspective shot at 5:59AM<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Next post on my review of Olhuveli<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The third in my series of posts covering Olhuveli by day, night, and finally \u2014 at sunrise. The lightweight Sirui T-024X Carbon Fiber Tripod and C-10S Ball Head was carted along for this Maldives trip. And after two earlier attempts<\/p>\n

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