Two days in the airport anchorage at Hulemale is enough when you are killing time.    The tourist boat traffic is vast with their dinghies toing and froing at vast speeds at all times of the day and late into the evenings.

We have now ventured north of Male to a small island by the name of Thulusdoo where there is a small Coco Cola factory where the product is made using deslinated water.    The process will be the same as we use for producing water on board.    With a bit of luck we hope to get invited to view the process of making Coke here.

The island is one of very few that is not a resort island and on the way we passed many of them.   They all look beautiful but we hate to guess what price they all might be.    Some we saw had accommodation built on stilts out over the ocean with no means of getting ashore other than by small boat – guess one would have to pay an absolute fortune for that privilege.

However, Thulusdhoo, is a good stop and we are anchored between two reefs just a short distance from a wreck that is deteriorating under the strong sun’s rays and the movement of the sea.    The water Is a beautiful clear blue and we plan once we have completed a few jobs to go ashore to explore.

This morning we received good news that a ship has been nominated to pick us up but the date has been put back to 30^th/31^st for its arrival in Male so guess it will be a few days into April before we finally fly away towards Istanbul, Turkey.

In the meantime we plan to spend a few days here to explore and enjoy the water before finding somewhere else to hang out.    We have almost 3 weeks before the ship arrives so still plenty of time to enjoy the warmth and give Turkey time to warm up.