Photo credit: Mickey Nattz We're docked in Gadhdhoo's harbour and by the time I finish some urgent work, everyone's gone off to the mainland. Chatura makes me an omelette, which I eat on the stern. It's typical Chatura excellence. "Why didn't you go?" asks Chatura. "I had some urgent work," I tell him. "What urgent? You're on holiday," he says. "I still have to pay rent Chatura," I say and he grins. "Buy a house," he replies. Huh. Chatura goes to the kitchen, and Sadies, the

A writer spends time with some Australian surfers on a boat in the pristine Huvadhoo Atoll, in the Maldives' South.

As possessors of one of the most incredible underwater topographies in the world, it comes as no surprise that we as Maldivians are all...