Chapter 65: The Underwater World
Hold your things and go outside.
The sea is calm, with only a few tourists playing on the side.
There was a small boat docked next to the pier, and several young men and women were carrying oxygen cylinders on it, apparently going to go deep-sea diving.
"Gayoom, take these jellyfish cloaks!"
As soon as they arrived at the beach, the clerk chased after them: "Last night's algae broke out, there was more food here, and today we should pay attention to those jellyfish." ”
"Thanks, I'm going back to get it. ”
Dani took the jellyfish suit from his hand and said to Han Xuan: "I used to go there with fewer coral reefs, so I don't need this, in addition to the jellyfish, it can also prevent you from being scratched by the coral reef." ”
"The snorkeling environment of our Pisces Island is not very good, next time we have to go to Tranquility Island or Park Hyatt Hadaha Island, the seabed around the pier is the most beautiful in this area, there are many corals and fish. ”
Gayoom helped the boy put on his jellyfish suit and life jacket, bowed his head and pulled a rope out of his bag, tied it around his waist, and tied the other end of his arm.
Han Xuan looked at him speechlessly, and asked in a low voice: "Are you Doraemon, why do you have everything......"
"Yes, this is my four-dimensional pocket. ”
Seeing the boy's surprised gaze, Gayoom smiled and said, "When I was in college in India, I saw some of this, it was quite interesting. ”
"Ah~ It turns out that I'm still an animation fan. ”
Say goodbye to the clerks, pack up their gear, and slowly walk into the sea.
The water is so clear that you can see fine white sand on the soles of your feet, with scattered shells falling on it.
Standing about a meter deep, the sea water had already submerged the boy's chest, but it had just touched the base of Dani's thigh.
Seeing her mocking eyes, the boy instantly became sad and indignant, stood on tiptoe to relax his body, and with the help of a life jacket, he easily floated on the surface of the sea.
The current drifted away with him, and Gayoom grabbed the rope with both hands and dragged him to his side as if he were fishing.
Han Xuan was messy, staggered to his feet, spit out seawater, and glared at the young man.
"I haven't told you how to snorkel yet, I'll play later. ”
Gayoom smiled and supported him, put a leaf on the surface of the sea, observed the current, and said: "This time stop when you reach a depth of four or five meters at most, remember not to dive into the sea, we don't have oxygen cylinders." ”
"Some creatures look beautiful, but they are actually poisonous, like those jellyfish. Swimming with flippers and biting on the tube to breathe through your mouth can be a little unaccustomed. ”
"Come on, you try it. ”
After more than a minute: "Well, I'll be gasping, let's go." ”
"What else?"
"Yes, it's easy. ”
“……”
The sun shines down through the sea and shines on the bottom of the sea.
Corals resemble antlers that grow together in patches, and they are formed by the accumulation and calcification of polyps after they die.
Brightly colored anemones cling to the rocks and sway along the current.
The blue-and-yellow striped emperor angelfish, as well as the yellow-bodied blue-billed sail-fin angelfish, shuttle in groups among them.
The Maldivian clownfish hides in the sea anemone and can't come out, with "Nemo" in "Finding Nemo", it is naturally indispensable to its little friend "Dolly" - yellow-tailed double spinytail.
The crown plate machine is like wearing yellow lipstick, and when I see it, I feel inexplicably happy, with a white body of a spiny tail fish with very thin black stripes, and it looks elegant and noble, and it wanders in a large group at the bottom of the sea, with its mouth stirring in search of food.
The teardrop butterflyfish hides in a crevice in the coral reef, only to poke out a white mouth outside.
The blue water is a little dazzling, the colorful coral reefs, and all kinds of tropical fish swim past Han Xuan, countless and nameless, like being in an incomparably huge dream aquarium.
Xiao Han Xuan found that there was a spiny dolphin in front of him, with a yellow cone-shaped body with large black spots, and when he found someone approaching, he quickly bulged into a round ball and pouted his mouth, which looked very cute.
Next to it was a little creature swimming by, gray and fat, with smoky makeup around its eyes, similar to that of a seal.
On the side of the rock, the big red octopus opened its teeth and claws, and when Gayoom saw it, he quickly grabbed Han Xuan and ran away, in case this guy's head was convulsed and sprayed with ink, it would not be fun to get it on his body.
The manta ray is close to the sand and swims gracefully, like a bird flying in the sky, and a school of small fish follows behind it, quickly walking away and disappearing.
There was a nurse shark baby more than forty centimeters long, who shyly approached Han Xuan and swam with him, and her docile appearance really didn't look like a shark.
When they crossed a small trench, the water suddenly became much deeper, about five meters, Gayoom stood up, poked his head out of the water, and the life jacket supported him to float, and Dani and Han Xuan also floated up.
The boy lifted his mask, wiped the fog on it, and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Just stop here, now go back, the current is a little strong today, and it has been drifting into the deep sea. Gayoom wiped the water from his face and asked with a smile, "Are you tired?"
"How am I, what about you?" said Dani.
The tight-fitting jellyfish suit outlined her bumpy figure, which made the young man's eyes a little straight.
"...... Return"
Hearing her ask, just as he wanted to speak, Han Xuan felt that something touched his leg, and looked down, the black shadow in the sea was more than a meter long, and the patterns on his back were gorgeous.
"These are hawksbill turtles, and you can often see them in the Maldives. Gayoom looked over and kicked him in the back, and the turtle pushed him away with its flippers and swam on the surface.
Han Xuan shook his legs, swam over and touched the tortoiseshell's head, and said in his mouth: "It's bigger than my snapping turtle, how can it not be afraid of people?"
"There are a lot of swimmers nearby, I guess I'm used to it. ”
"Will you go back now?" said Dani, who didn't seem to be enjoying herself, and looked around to see quite a few people in the distance.
Gayoom put on the diving goggles and nodded: "Well, let's go back first, go over there and have a look, I'll grab something to eat for lunch." ”
"How about this?" Han Xuan asked, pointing at the tortoiseshell.
The turtle's head froze, and it quickly dived back into the sea on all fours, staying on the rocks and looking at the boy.
Gayoom grimaced, helped the boy tidy up his diving tools, and said, "They are not tasty, and the meat is too old after living for decades." ”
As if in agreement, the hawksbill turtle shook its head and saw a jellyfish float past it and chase after it to enjoy its meal.
Looking down and inserting the breathing tube into his waist, Gayoom took a breath, dived into the sea, and soon surfaced up, with an extra sea cucumber in his hand, which was fifteen centimeters long.
Swimming all the way stops, and the speed is much faster on the way back, only a few hundred meters from the shore.
The boy was almost dragged forward by a rope, and before he could eat anything, he was full of water.
Fortunately, when he got to the sea, the young man gave him the opportunity to catch lobsters, so that he could avoid being put in small shoes by some unscrupulous island owner in the future.
The monsoon tide of the Indian Ocean brings with it a large number of small marine creatures and abundant food resources, creating a colorful underwater world in the Maldives. Today's beautiful scenery is enough for Han Xuan to remember for a lifetime.