Flamingo Beach: Beach Entry

Flamingo Beach offers one of our favourite shore entries in the Daymaniyats. It’s a shallow, meandering reef, perfect for a long, relaxed dive or even a night dive if you’re anchored nearby. We love kicking out over the sandy bottom, spotting the occasional loggerhead turtle gliding past, seemingly unbothered by us. Once you hit the reef proper, the corals are in great shape – plenty of big brain corals and star column corals forming interesting bommies. Keep an eye out for the smaller stuff too; we’ve had some fantastic encounters with Maldive cones and the strikingly patterned cloth-of-gold cone snails tucked into crevices. The porcelain coral patches attract plenty of small reef fish, like Queen coris darting in and out, and you’ll often see schools of surf redfish hovering over the sand. It’s a gentle drift, often, making it an easy dive for shaking off travel fatigue or for newer divers getting comfortable in the water. We’d suggest going in the late afternoon; the light really brings out the colours of the corals and makes for some beautiful photos.