Boatmen row ashore on their raft, with Wilhelm at anchor in Maldives. Addu atoll, Gan.
Nice Dinghy landing in Gan!
Our Agent, Mas-ood Saeed, who handles required procedures to leave the country and helps with other tasks.
Fellow cruiser Konnie, on a Maldivian street
Another Maldivian street
The Eye Cafe, one of our favorite retaurants. (Fish curry for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Cost - about $2.50 US.)
View of the lagoon from the Eye Cafe
Short eats. Little tidbits of different foods.
Betel nut. Ingested differently from what we had seen in the Solomon Islands, but still bad for the teeth.
One of Natalie's favorite traditional boats
The new airport in Gan, using a runway built by the British some years ago. Guards keep everyone (including us) from entering the building without a ticket.
Sprucing up homes with Ramazan a few weeks away. (Ramazan in the Maldives is called Ramadan in some other countries.)
Note the script, advertising the mobile phone system....which is great! We made a number of calls to the USA from our cockpit.
Out for dinner with some other cruisers.
Dining al fresco at Center Park, a new restaurant that took its name from a spot in the USA
Boat building shop
Building modern boats with traditional methods.
Traditional methods of boat building - copper clad hull.
School, reported to be one of the best in the Maldives, flying flags for prize day.
School with flags for prize day.
Exploring by bicycles - Local people told us that their language was not hard to learn...Luckily, we read the English signs.
Nice lunch spot on our bicycle ride.
Store selling headscarfs with which the women cover their heads
Older homes are built from coral blocks; newer ones from concrete blocks.
Great color combinations!
Traditional boats in the Maldives
The driver steers with his foot, looking ahead at the lagoon and coral.
Nat shows photos of Esme to Neena and Zaha
