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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Wednesday, October 24, 2012



Two-lined Monacle Bream (Scolopsis bilineata): A frequently-seen inhabitant of the Lagoon’s rubble area, the 20 cm Two-lined Monacle Bream looks as though it can’t make up its mind. It darts from one place to another stopping dead each time in a questioning way. In fact it has excellent eyesight and looks for signs of worms and small creatures in the rubble and sand. The slightest movement .. and lunch is served. Look for a grey body, the distinctive white head-stripe outlined in black that runs from under the eye to the middle of the back, the outsized eye and the darkened skin under the dorsal fin.


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