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18 April 2017

30 March Dash back to Male

We'd left Rasdhoo at 1 o'clock and motored all the way back to Hulhumale, 32nm, arriving an hour after sunset. Because we'd been here before and knew the anchorage we felt confident to enter and anchor. Luckily for us it was Wednesday night and most of the live aboards were out on trips, Friday and Saturday being change over days leaving a large gap where we had anchored before.
Next morning, Thursday, we were in Male centre before the shops opened at 10am. There are almost as many dive supply shops as in Chalong, Phuket. Not as many and not with the variety and range of Phuket, but enough to be allow us to try on different manufacturers. Our final choice was Mares for functionality, quality and value. We popped into a filter shop and bought half a dozen diesel fuel filters which we'd missed on the last visit, picked up some more fresh food items and were on the 1 o'clock ferry back to Hulhumale. With no reason to hang around Hulhumale for a second night we lifted the anchor and moved 8 miles south to a completely indifferent, but convenient, night stop in the next atoll south of Male.



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