House reef snorkeling in Vilamendhoo Resort
Diving 9 years ago 30,714 views
I have been to the Vilamendhoo Resort twice in 2014, each of which was a two week stay. The mesmerizing discovery of its beautiful house reef made me decide to return so soon to this island. (I thought in those days that the corals in the Maldives were generally still suffering from the breaching damages.) The dense and vivid coral reef sorrounds the resort completely, only within a few steps of the beach. There is no artificial ugly reef which many Maldivian islands have nowadays constructed in order to prevent the beach erosion and which unfortunately and fatally disturbs the scenic sight from the beach towards the horizon. The underwater world around this house reef is just nothing but marvelous. In addtion to the millions of colourful tropcial fish, you will almost always meet sharks and turtles. By participating in the resort excursions, you will also be able to swim with manta rays and whale sharks, and as far as I have experienced (6 times) the chances of swimming with them are 100%. It was rather worrying and disappointing, however, that on my second visit to the resort I was not able to see any turtle on the house reef, whereas on the first visit sighting them was just a daily sure event. Also, to be honest, the condition of the corals seemed to have degraded over the half-year period. The beauty of the Maldives may not be eternal. Filmed in May and December 2014.
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