Baby Sharks

Yesterday I went for a swim and surprise  surprise... What do I see??? Lots of white baby sharks with the black fin swimming around me. I got scared... and I left back to the beach. At that moment when I was walking to my room I met a Maldivian guy and I asked him why there were so many baby sharks swimming around the island during the day and disappearing at night time. 

The boy explained to me then:

- Mom shark swims at 5am to the reef with the babies to place her children in the reef before sunset. 

I asked:

- But what is the reason? Having such a huge ocean to swim around? Why do they come here? 

And he answered: 

- It is a form of protection. Children sharks can hurt themselves in the deep waters or even be eaten by bigger fishes of the ocean world. That's why she places them in the early morning in the reef, to protect them. At night time she swims back with her husband to pick them up and that way the family can sleep and spend the night together.

After listening to the beautiful story my fear of sharks disappeared and today I end up enjoying their company. 

Now I realize that sharks are not so different to us humans and in the end even mom shark just wants to protect and take care of her family.

High Hills

Today when I woke up I could feel the breeze of the Indian Ocean. Some birds were doing some strange noises and lots of crabs were coming out of the sand through the holes that they scarb themselves on a daily basis. ;)

But I had a very special moment this morning when I was getting dressed, cause I had a brief put powerful dejavu. 

I could still feel the pain of how uncomfortable was to be always wearing high hills to go to work and also during my 12h daily shift. And today, in that moment when I was putting my shoes on to head up to the office, I realized how lucky I am to be wearing flip flops instead of high hills. And obviously I had the biggest smile of the world on my face. And YES, it was pure happiness. 

That's one of the positive and beautiful  things of being working on an island. You won't find any streets or highways or any cars, what you will find is just a bunch of sand.