Who ordered the rain! (Maldives Holiday)

Second full day of the holiday and yesterday was punctuated by quite a good rainstorm around 1900, we could see the gathering clouds off to the west as we hung around the "Sand Bar" hoping to get some pics of the sunset



The pic above excluded any view of the event. 

This morning however was a different story with some stunning pics on the beach

This is the stretch of beach outside our "hut" it gets the full sun in the morning and tails off late afternoon.  By then we are usually "skulking" around the "Sand Bar" where once again its full sun

Here I am after a  "Challenging" champagne breakfast preparing to go for a snorkel.  We go in just in front of the hut then cruise around the reef to strangely enough the "Sand bar" area.  From there its a short walk across the island back to the hut.

The hut is pretty spectacular and we wouldn't normally have got such a swish bit of accommodation but due to a bit of an administrative cock-up  we finished up in 1 of 4 of the "Presidential Villa's"  there's only one better and they call that "The Royal Residence!" 

Here's a pic of the front of the hut

There are more pics on this picasa web album webalbum as well as 2 short videos of the inside of the hut if anyones interested.  

I'll add pics as we go to the web album throughout the hol. Back to the Sand Bar! even if it is raining