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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