Where in the World are Dave and Elizabeth?

 After lunch at the Indian Cafe, we went to two different places to snorkel.   We came near a school of dolphins on the way.  The waters in both places were teeming with fish of different sizes and shapes and colors, various corals, and rays. I didn’t get back in at the second place, but I missed out on seeing eels and sharks.  Just after we got back on the boat in the first place for snorkeling, people from another boat lifted a ray to the top of the water to touch it and look at it.  I felt sorry for the ray!  I am assuming it was a manna and not a stinger, but don’t know that for sure.  Here are a few more photos from our first day in Malé. Memorial for Victims of the 2004 Tsunami See you in Victoria, Mahé! 

This is why everyone loves the Maldives: sunshine, white sands, water that is perfect for sports.   What a beautiful day we had yesterday in God’s creation! Six of us from the Zuiderdam booked a boat tour.  The others on the excursion were a young Italian family of four and a couple from the Philippines who live and work in the United Arab Emirates.  Our guides took us about forty-five minutes away to a sandbar.  They docked as close as the surrounding shallow waters allowed, and we waded the rest of the way there.  After that, we headed to Himmafushi Island, which is inhabited by about 1,000 people.  Can you see the stingray? We snorkeled with stingrays later, but we just took this picture off the dock at Himmafushi.  We walked around, visited a couple of shops, and ate a tasty lunch at the Indian Cafe. Since the people of the Maldives are of Indian and Sri Lankan origins, their cuisine is heavily influenced by Indian food. We passed a spicket of filt...