Aussie surf coach Kale Brock discovers “unnerving” resort in Maldives, “Remnants of abundant life totally stopped in its tracks!”

"You could fully shoot a zombie movie here"

The Australian surf coach Kale Brock is well-known for his excellent technique and travel videos on YouTube, a rare talent who avoids the usual tendency to overdramatise his encounters.

Of middle height and with a lightly portly body, Brock, who turns thirty-three in one week, has amassed an impressive almost quarter-of-a-million subscribers on his channel.

He is a man of formidable force, a dreamer who thinks, a thinker who dreams.

Now, Brock has stunned his fans with a walk-through of a hastily abandoned resort in the Maldives, at one point exposing the grim skeleton of what were going to be five-thousand-dollar-a-night over-the-water bungalows.

“Apparently it’s a major politician in the Maldives who owns this island and construction got underway 12 years ago,” Brock says. “They were building for two years then for ‘political reasons’. We don’t really know, ostensibly maybe they ran out of money. They’ve literally abandoned the project… There’s bathtubs in unopened but deteriorating boxes. There’s literally piles of toilets stood up over one another and ultimately there’s incredible potential for an incredible place here.”

Brock swings by a couple of abandoned cars.

You could fully shoot a zombie movie here… I feel like we’re in Jurassic Park, after they’ve abandoned it.

“Imagine the dinners you could have had,” he “says. “Imagine the surf you could have had 1km that way.”