Toni the Maldive Lady
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Kuramathi, set in Rashdoo atoll
Located in this tiny archipelago is where my story starts.
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It was in the very early eighties that I took myself off to visit Kuramathi in a slow moving Dhoni ( local boat). I was based then on Ihuru. Once we had left North Male Atoll the open seas threw us around. I really enjoyed this as I threw out a fishing line and wrapped it round my big toe while reading a book. Now and then I would feel a tug on the line and the boat boys would help me pull up various catches, all was well with the world!

Coming into the Rasdhoo Atoll, which apart from Kuramathi only had one other resort. Rasdhoo island is small with a school, a shop and simple homes.The island is very long and thin with small trails lined with palm tree’s towering above. Simple accommodation, no air condition just fans. Fantastic diving, the home of the Hammerhead Sharks! 

An early morning dive about 6am. Rainer Huth was the Dive master supreme. He had been in the islands for many years, travelling from the top to the bottom, almost 500 miles.  He understood the local people very well and had a very high standing with Universal Enterprises their Chairman Mr M. U. Maniku  who opened  the very first Resort in the Maldives in 1972.
Suffice to say over the years Rainer and I became very close friends. When I took the Maldives into the World Travel Mart in London he would come over annually for this event and give me a hand.  There was no dive question he could not answer!  I was already diving
Kuramathi's simple thatched bar and sandy floor had a special permit on the wall.
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Special Permit
To have any of the drinks you first had to qualify! See them close by! My time was short in early days but I never stopped moving from island to island...Mantas came first, not a deep dive and very graceful, plenty of them. Hammerhead quite another matter!  An early dive, deep and to be honest I was terrified! The visibility was not brilliant and this great ugly flat face appeared out of the gloom which sent me flying up a.s.a.p.
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© F. Jack Jackson
Never but never to be repeated! However as far as I can now remember, BOTH Cocktails were well worth the dives. Sadly I had to move on with my travels. In all my many years diving I seen many turtles, and have even caught a Barracuda.
As I said, this was all a very very long time ago.
Rainer sadly has passed away. His input in the early days of the Maldive Tourism was incredible.
Rainer Huth
Rainer Huth

The Maldive Islands


Ariyadhoo, Himithi, Mini Mas,
Gali & Maamigili
Fuah Mulaku

GAAFU ALIFU ATOLL SCHOOL
Gan and Feydhoo
Hanimadhoo & Uteemu
Ihuru
Kuramathi
Kurumba
Laamu  Atoll
Lhaviyani
Niyama - Dhaalu Atoll
Rashdoo & Noonu Atoll
Villingili

Holiday Of A Life Time:
Maldives, Sri Lanka & Dubai

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SPIRITUAL PERCEPTION - LETTER FROM BENEDICTA

MY ISLAND STORY

On My Way To Happy Days

Passenger Flying Log Book

My Very Good Looking Father

Through a Zanzibar Doorway

Lion Sands

Cape Town

A Night At The London Zoo

Wild Reef Child

Ashley

Flying With Hunting Clan

Love At First Sight

The Queen Mother

Romy Has a Surprise!

GEORGE

My Talk 2018

My Flying Diary

The Maldive Lady, by Jo Foley

LiveWire: First Lady of Leisure

Kunfunadhoo

The Lady In The Loo

First Round The World Flight

Tehran

PHINDA

Rat Story

Visha & Maya

Saint Helena

A Flight of a Lifetime

Diving Bangaram Island
Shark Circus
Richard Harley
Yusuff Moosa

I Dived To Victory
Memorable Muscat
You Must Not Wear Any Weights Or Life Jacket


A Magic Boat Launches

Angkor, Cambodia

Champneys

Country Life

Crown of Thorns

Having A Whale Of A Time

​Hurlingham Club Magazine Summer 2016

Kenya

​KASHMIR 1959

Lady Rose

Love of Skiing

My Magic Beans

My Outstanding Award
My Sandbank
Museum of Mankind
My 86th Birthday
Classic Wings: My 87th Birthday
My 88th Birthday
Magic Yellow File
RACEHORSE
Seychelles
South Africa
The Haute Route
Thrills & Spills - Dhoni Mighili
Underwater Ireland
Welcome To Stanford Bridge
***WEST OF ZANZIBAR***

Helicopter Bride
SCHOOL / FLYING
World Travel Mart
My Adopted Maldivian Family
Life Threatening Thalassemia
Himmafushi - The Young Offenders
Villingilli Orphanage
The Tsunami
Commemorative Coins

1986 Commonwealth Games
Guest Speaker of the Canberra
My Cocktail
Love & Marriage in Sri Lanka


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Flags
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A Maldives Symphony -
My Swan Song:

- Velassaru & Kuramathi
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Colombo

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