Kulhudhuffushi

Wildfox
Anthony Swanston
Wed 21 Mar 2018 12:48

                               
We spend a day or two in Uligan and take a speedboat trip to two other islands.  My Visa card will not work in the only ATM and so I have an expensive withdrawal on my credit card. We have a meal which includes chewing bettlenut with loads of additives leaving very red teeth. Then you spit a lot.  Ladies too.  It is a lovely habit.


We  south on a windless day and arrive in the pretty and almost deserted harbour of Kulhudhuffushi.  Don’t you just love these place names?  The fishing and inter island ferry harbour is busy but too shallow and too busy for us.  Customs make themselves busy and we have to check in again and also with the security guard.  They all have jobs and they have to fill their day up. Back at Uligan there were 75 children of school age.  They had 32 teachers.  All of these public sector jobs are paid for by tourism.


Customs then inform me that if I want to buy diesel then my clearance agent needs to write to him.  I mean, it is 40 litres from a filling station by the beach.


South east this time with a little wind but still motor sailing.  And we pass a deserted resort on Vagaru.  Some resorts are very successful; some are not…


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