We spent Friday snorkelling and sunbathing. The day was amazing and I was able to cross one more ‘must see’ off my list, which included…
1) Couples in matching clothes (see Nat Tran in the Maldives)
2) Dolphins
3) Turtles
4) A shark
5) A sting ray
I had already crossed number one off on the flight between Singapore and Male’… So many matching couples; I was in heaven.
Whilst on the way to the sandbank three dolphins swam along with us beside the boat. They were only small dolphins but seeing them up so close made us pretty happy. 
When the boat did arrive at the (non-existent) sandbank we had to jump off the side to swim over to the reef. We swam around for quite a while. While no-one saw anything particularly exciting there were a lot of very colourful fish and the parrot fish were the biggest and brightest I had seen since being in the Maldives. I really can’t put into words how peaceful and beautiful it was down there – it really is something you have to see for yourself.
We then made our way to the uninhabited island. Asad had brought a paddle boat with him this time, so Caitlin, Nicole and I commandeered it for about half an hour before lunch to see what we could find. My only regret was that I didn’t bring my camera with me. I thought it might have got wet out there, but it would have been fine. While we were out trying get the hang of steering, moving the boat and quoting way too many lines from Finding Nemo ("I'm going to touch the butt!") we spotted a turtle. It was small and only above the water for a short amount of time but we didn’t really care – we had seen a turtle! I crossed number three off my list.
The remainder of the day was spent sunbaking, eating and snorkelling. The remainder of the night however, was spent wincing in pain – the sun had well and truly burnt a number of us.
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