Day 19 (1/16) Formosan sand

Broke fast and explored the oceanside for much of the morning.


This must be what owning an island is like. We've had the pool, jacuzzi, sauna, steam room, restaurant, rec center and now the beach--basically the entire resort, it seems--all to ourselves.


Taiwan rocks


Aunt and I.


Sea snake? Eel? I hope so, 'cause we helped it along into the water. The waves kept pushing it back though, which must be how it got ashore in the first place.


Assorted junk dad found on the beach: a knife and a pretty nice Nokia cell.

We then headed over to visit my grandmother at the Buddhist monastery where her ashes are. No recap necessary.

Afterwards it was onto nearby Yehliu Geopark.


Because I'm too lazy to explain what you're seeing.


Heart?

Some old ladies scraping the rocks for seaweed. There were a lot of them.



Getting my rocks off. Wait... what?



The queen's head.

Next stop was Jing San, an area known for their duck. The town had a bustling marketplace but there was one particularly busy storefront, and that's where we lunched. The kitchen continuously churned out side and other dishes, while at the front there was one guy chopping up cooked ducks and another plating or packaging them to go.


You line up for your duck and grab any other side dishes of your choice and head over to one of at least eight other storefronts nearby used exclusively as dining rooms.


Lunch. Clockwise from top: noodles, bamboo shoots, some sort of innards, salt and pepper fried crab, duck, squid and celery. Little in the way of presentation... it's all about the food, and the food is good.