white tip shark

white tip shark

Welcome!

Hi everyone,

Welcome to Snorkelling in the Maldives, a blog designed to enable any snorkeller or scuba diver, whether novice or experienced, to get maximum pleasure from a trip to the Maldives. Many posts will concern the easy identification of the fish you see there as well. The one above is a Whitetip Reef Shark, the most widespread shark species on the Maldivian Reefs.

Our snorkelling career started in Australia's Hayman Island 20 years ago. Since then we have been fascinated by the world beneath the waves. We have snorkelled in Lord Howe, Australia, and seen the southern-most reach of the soft corals. We have bobbed in Brampton and Heron Islands in the Australian Whitsundays on the Great Barrier Reef, swum round Michaelmas Key in Cairns, dived in Indonesia and the Gilli Islands, sampled the warm waters of the south seas in Vanuatu, Rarotonga, New Caledonia and Fiji and explored the reefs of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean. And never once did the underwater world lose its fascination. We are hooked on the Maldives and keep coming back - twice a year to atolls that seem to feature more exotic and rare fish than anywhere else.

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Friday, June 29, 2012



Orange-spine Unicornfish (Naso Lituratus): So called because of the bright orange defensive spine scalpels on its tail, the Orange-spine Unicornfish is seen often in the shallow inner Lagoon and the Reef Crests. Just to confuse matters some fish books call it the Yellowkeel Unicornfish. No matter. The thing to remember is it's the one that looks like Elvis Presley with yellow hair. It has a yellow-edged black mask extending from eyes to snout, a mouth that looks like it has applied lipstick and a black and yellow dorsal fin. A 45 cm grey body and a white tail edged in black complete the ensemble.

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