{"id":10030,"date":"2022-10-23T05:28:49","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T05:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/swimming-with-sharks-turtles-clownfish-and-stingrays-in-the-maldives\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T10:17:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T10:17:58","slug":"swimming-with-sharks-turtles-clownfish-and-stingrays-in-the-maldives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/swimming-with-sharks-turtles-clownfish-and-stingrays-in-the-maldives\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring The House Reef At Dhawa Ihuru Hotel Maldives: One Of The Best Snorkelling Spots In The Maldives"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is hard to relax on the beach when there’s so much amazing stuff to see around you and so, despite enjoying the  down time chilling with cocktails by the beach, we decided we had to go snorkelling.<\/p>\n

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We’d been told so much about the amazing house reef here and knew we had to experience it at the first opportunity available.<\/p>\n

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We also had a marine biologist taking us around the island to show us the many things we could see here. We were also told that we would most likely be able to swim with sharks here, perhaps even some dolphins and turtles!<\/p>\n

We jumped in with high expectations!<\/p>\n

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The reef here for one is a lot different from what we were used to. The drop is a lot less severe and less scary than we’d come to find and so it felt a lot more natural to venture out further and explore more…<\/p>\n

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The sheer diversity of fish here are absolutely amazing but before long we saw something I’d wanted to see since we first arrived…<\/p>\n

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…a turtle!!!<\/p>\n

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Within minutes of getting into the water, the turtle just swam on by slowly and unbothered by us. I almost couldn’t believe it! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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We let the turtle get on with his own business as we went off in search of more Maldivian amazingness.<\/p>\n

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As we swam along along, we came across several sharks and not baby one like before – fully grown 6 foot long black tip sharks. I have to admit, I was a tad nervous when I first saw it but the marine biologist was so calm and actively pointed it out to us so we leaned into his natural calmness. (Alas, I don’t have photos but I’ve got a couple of videos which I hope to get onto YouTube<\/a> soon).<\/p>\n

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Now one thing I was looking forward to seeing here was clownfish so I was so pleased when we did! Okay, these aren’t clownfish a-la Nemo (those ones have different markings) but they’re in the clownfish family and that suited me just fine!<\/p>\n

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They were a little shy at first, popping out every so often to check out what was going on!<\/p>\n

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We’ve even got a little video on our Facebook page.<\/p>\n

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