I Want to See the Sea!

Before we bought our motorcycle, Matthew had asked me where the first place I wanted to visit was. My answer? The sea! Unfortunately, I did not get my wish as it was not the first destination. In fact, after owning the motorcycle for more than a month, did I finally get my wish. The sea is not that far from where we live; only about a 20 minute drive westward.

I can certainly tell you that I never tire of any source of water. I just find it so relaxing. We headed there in mid-afternoon and stayed until after sunset. Almost everywhere on the coast you can find tons of oyster farms, the same as what we had seen in Chiayi on our bike tour.

There was a huge wall between the sea and the land. On the one side is the South China Sea with the oyster farms, and on the other side is a bunch of farm land.

Part of the wall has been renovated and now serves as a beautiful walkway inaccessible to scooters and other two wheeled vehicles. They put up barricades and stairs which is necessary. People here drive wherever they want, on the wrong side of the road, down bicycle paths, etc. So I was a bit impressed that they had built the pathway at the top of the wall without any ramp; it's unlikely someone will try to drive their vehicles going up stairs. The pathway seems to be very long (I'm not sure where it ends) and runs directly alongside the coastline so you always have a view of the sea.

We didn't really do anything while we were there. Just explored and enjoyed the view and the sea breeze.

We noticed what looked to be a road, but it was inaccessible to us when we were there. It turns out it is a road used by the oyster farmers. When the tide is low, they can drive out to their farms and collect their oysters. We also saw lots of small crabs in the sand, which is what you see in the last picture; all the unevenness in the sand are small rocks, sea shells, and small crabs.