Waves Inn
Guesthouse island in Raa Atoll. Its reef is measured from satellite; guest reviews live on the booking sites.
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House reef & underwater
Waves Inn · Raa Atoll · a house reef
Excellent house reef
Reef Conditions · top 15% of the 297 reefs we have measured
Shore entry Measured
~367 m across the lagoon to the drop-off — a genuine swim, not a wade.
Living cover Measured
About 52% of the mapped reef reads as living coral or algae from satellite.
Heat history Measured
Peak heat stress 3.74 DHW since the imagery, no bleaching alert on record.
From satellite this reef reads Excellent — roughly 52% 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 — southwest Raa
Around Maamunagau and Fenfushi, feeding runs December to April, in the northeast monsoon, with young-of-year present in the same window. The record here is substantial: several thousand sightings of more than 400 identified individuals.
Reef manta ray — eastern Raa
Vandhoo and Kottefaru flip to the southwest monsoon: feeding around September to November, courtship from July. This eastern side holds roughly 72% of the atoll’s pregnant-female sightings.
Turtles — no atoll-level seasonal study exists; treat them as year-round residents rather than a season
Reef sharks — no atoll-level seasonal data
Where it is
5.60616, 73.04342The pin is the island centroid from our geocoding, not the building — properties on the same island share it. Satellite imagery © Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics.