*Gaafaru, the site of a government wind farm project, is Kaashidhoo's nearest neighbor - a one-and-half-hour dhoni ride away.
... As I sat on the deck of a large, mostly open-air dhoni, with a small housing in the middle, I was treated to one wondrous sight after another. Adam, two other friends and myself sat huddled together in the cold wind, as we had to leave immediately at midnight to, er, save daylight perhaps, as Gaafaru is some four hours away if you are traveling on a normal dhoni. But our ferry was not normal as it pitched us on the lengthy harbor of the island just three hours into the adventure.
Situated on the fringes of the rough Kaashidhoo channel, Gaafaru’s isolation is complete on a starry night as you travel with no flickering lights evident from any distant island, the darkness around you complete and absorbing. And up there, as wide as the horizon itself, a singular black rain cloud had its edges silhouetted by the fuzzy Milky Way with its brilliant display of billions of stars, some very much alive, and some dying, like a display of fire-works held still in time. Listening to the lines “You and me are drifting into outer space” from the song “X&Y” by Coldplay gave me a wondrous sense of being, but also reminded me of my own insignificance in the wider scheme of things... Read more
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