The houses and garden walls are built of cut coral stones, now being replaced with cement blocks. There are many fruit trees and bananas in the yards, along with hibiscus and other tropical plants. The causeway continues northward, stringing the rest of the islets together as far as Hitaddu, which is quite a big island, and again very populated. Tourism is the number one economic base in the Maldives, but there is not much of that to be seen here. Fishing is another.
Agriculture is on a subsistence level only.
No one we have spoken with has answers. Because of all the motoring we did on the passage here, one of our main tasks was to buy fuel to refill the tanks. We have 4 cans and borrowed 2 more from a tea shop. I walk to the fuel office for a 'permission' slip and return to the fuel tank. The attendant fills the jugs and notes the amount of liters on the slip.