True South
Guesthouse island in Addu. Its reef is measured from satellite; guest reviews live on the booking sites.
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House reef & underwater
True South · Addu · a shared island reef
Good house reef
Reef Conditions · top 63% of the 297 reefs we have measured
Shore entry Measured
~552 m across the lagoon to the drop-off — a genuine swim, not a wade.
Living cover Measured
About 40% of the mapped reef reads as living coral or algae from satellite.
Heat history Measured
Peak heat stress 4.34 DHW since the imagery, 1 bleaching-alert year on record (2016).
From satellite this reef reads Good — roughly 40% living cover. We have not surveyed it in the water, so fish counts and big-encounter ratings stay pending. We don't estimate them.
Reef data modelled from Allen Coral Atlas benthic & geomorphic maps (CC BY 4.0) and NOAA Coral Reef Watch. No in-water survey — every figure above is a measurement. Marine icons: game-icons.net (CC BY 3.0).
Reef manta ray
A resident sub-population rather than a seasonal visit. Across some 335 surveys at Maa Kandu, about 86% of individuals were resighted — an average of eleven times each. It is assessed as a reproductive area. No month-by-month peak has been published, so we do not state one.
Turtles — no atoll-level seasonal study exists; treat them as year-round residents rather than a season
Reef sharks — no atoll-level seasonal data
A seasonal peak — the residency is documented, the monthly pattern is not
Photos
Where it is
-0.66788, 73.11868The pin is the island centroid from our geocoding, not the building — properties on the same island share it. Satellite imagery © Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics.