Maldives Day 8 - Sun, Heat, Bathtub - and a Wakeboard!

August 2, 2021

I wake up at 7 o'clock and can't sleep anymore.

My back hurts, the mattress is just too hard for me 🙈

After another half an hour of tossing and turning, I move to the sun lounger on the terrace. The sun is shining and the water is calm. I'm curious to see if we will have a good view while snorkeling later.

The wind is completely absent today and I already have a feeling that it will be a sweaty day, as the sun is already shining brightly in the sky.

We have breakfast at 9 o'clock.

As always, I have omelette and melon for breakfast. The omelette cook already knows me and I don't have to say anything except "Good Morning!". He repeats for me every morning:

"Good Morning! Two eggs with cheese, tomato, spinach and onions, salt & pepper – come back in 5 minutes!"

That's what I call service! So I can already queue up at the fruit buffet and then pick up my finished omelette. Nice!

After breakfast, the husband would like to go wakeboarding, but since there are 2 water skiing beginners getting lessons today, wakeboarding will only be possible afterwards, earliest at 11 o'clock.

We decide to go snorkeling before that and swim past the two yellow buoys above the jetty.

Unfortunately, the visibility under the water is very poor, the sea is very turbulent, although there are hardly any waves. Just before the last rope to the reef edge, we see a huge ray swimming into the lagoon right next to us. Wow, it's big!

At the front of the reef edge, we see some fish and schools, but no sharks. The visibility doesn't improve despite the direct sunlight, so we decide to snorkel back and skip the big round today.

On the way to the buoy towards the beach, we see the ray again next to us. It is digging the bottom of the sea and seems to be looking for food. It is already quite far in front of the lagoon.

After snorkeling, I quickly get my DSLR camera and we head straight to the water sports stand. The husband wants to go wakeboarding.

I can go on the boat and take photos. Perfect!

Paul, the head of the water sports station, takes us on beautiful rounds around the island so that the husband can pose on the board in front of the water bungalows and the island 😇🤪

We drive almost 1.5 times around the island, then the husband signals that it's enough - haha. Paul encourages him to jump over a few waves (yes, we have a lot of fun in the boat *ggg*), then he slows down and drives back towards the beach.

Dagmar is already waiting there and walks around the boat to take my bag with the DSLR camera. The water is already 2m deep behind the beach, reaching up to my chest. Dagmar is smaller than me and juggles my bag safely over her head while fighting through the waves to get to the beach.

After lunch, we actually want to walk along the jetties of the water bungalows and look into the lagoon, but I'm the only one with flip-flops and the wooden planks are very hot. So I go 'strolling' alone.

Walking on the jetties in the midday heat is quite exhausting.

After a little break on the sun lounger, we splash in the sea. We have a lot of fun with the air mattress and the waves in our oversized bathtub 🤪.

For the sunset, we sit again at the beach bar and around us there are almost only German couples, most of them are on their honeymoon, we hear. Many arrived with Condor yesterday.

You can tell that there are hardly any Russians here anymore. The posing on the beach at sunset has noticeably decreased 🤭

I try a new creation: Lime&Lemonade with vodka. Also nice 🤪

Together with a Black Russian, the perfect sunset drink.

The dinner is again very diverse. The eggplants in all variations are very delicious today. As a vegetarian, I have never had to go hungry. But I will stay away from the ratatouille from now on. My last 2 attempts ended in sweating and a numb tongue. I'm really not picky when it comes to spicy food, but that was really too spicy.

It's a pity that it never says whether something is spicy or not. Maybe a suggestion for improvement to the hotel - we have already received the appropriate paper to fill out.

The dessert is again very chocolatey, but unfortunately there are raisins or candied orange peel almost everywhere. Some people may like it, but I don't like it at all, but there are still plenty of pastries, fried fruits, or dough with honey or vanilla sauce, and of course fruit 😉

The nightly gaming session at the Sand Bar is a must. Today we stick to 'Skyjo' and 'Llama', we are once again exhausted from the sun ☀️.

Unfortunately, there is still a big drama before going to bed:

The beloved Pokemon plush toy of our son is missing!

We search everywhere, under the bed, in all the closets. The plush toy is gone. We comfort him and promise to search again tomorrow. It can't be gone....

Who would steal a stuffed toy on a mini island!?