Getting the morning catch ready for the market
December 9th, 2009:
Thanks to those Long Island Ice Teas the night before, I wasn't too bright eyed and bushy tailed the next morning. Anyway, I set off before noon and got a few hours in.
The beach at Fonggang
Kending Peninsula barely visible on the right
Views of the coast
Much of this part of the walk was along somewhat dingy towns that seem to have tried to cash in on tourism but failed. That was probably because the shops by the highway were all semi-industrial ones, like truck tire shops, that didn’t exactly blend with the whole holiday resort theme. In any case, there were lots of deserted buildings and decorative statuary of the sort that Zippy the Pinhead would love to talk to, if he came to Taiwan.
Fortunately, this kind of rubbishy development alternated with nice seaside villages.
Odd but beautiful driftwood covered temple
Old fishing boat that was probably dashed ashore in a typhoon
I had intended to make it all the way to Fangliao that day, but fell a bit short of my goal, ending up in the small highway town of Fangshan. Fangliao was just up the road, and would be part of my next walk. It also represented where the island fanned out from the mountains and the western plain started, which is really the oldest part of Taiwan, its heartland.
It would be an interesting place to start the next leg of my journey.
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