Monday, September 11, 2006
Taiwan (4th day)
7/9/06
We headed to Kee Lung (pronounced as Ji1 Long2), to catch a bus to Yeliu. We missed our stop and hence had to ask for directions to Yeliu. We enquired at a 7-11 and told to take a cab from up front. We were also asked to take from a driver surnamed Lee. When we went there, we had this feeling that ALL the taxi drivers had surname Lee! Hahaha!
Anyway, we finally arrived at Yeliu. And I was so excited! I was like in Geography heaven! All the rock formations were so exquisite! First-hand experience with the horizontal bedding planes, vertical joints, wave erosion, wind erosion, plate tectonics, weathering.... which gave rise to all kinds of formations, like the Queen's head rock, Fairies' Shoe, the mushroom-like landforms, potholes, etc. My gosh! I so enjoyed myself! Trigger-happy I was too! I was so happy I could have gone gila!
Queens' Head. Formed by aeolian (wind) weathering.
Fairies' Shoe. Isn't it amazing what erosion can do?!
Released into the wild, back onto the rock.
Onto the potholed landform.
Horizontal bedding planes.
Typical text book photo of weathering.
Cape out to sea, with pretty horizontal bedding planes of varying heights.
We started picking up baby seashells on the seashore. And guess what? i found a hermit crab! We played with it till it left its shell, in search of an undisturbed one. But we continued terrorizing it. Haha! Kel was so fascinated cos he had never seen one! In the end, we found 3 hermit crabs and we made them a happy family. Haha!
First toy. Hermit crab which migrated from one shell to another. Not shy.
Non-hermit crab. Found in a flooded pothole.
We ventured further, and entered the coastal area. We found caves, admired the strength of he wave erosion on the joints, admired the beauty of the sea, the many potholes which looked like tortoises, the water-filled potholes which threatened to swallow us in, etc.
Hmm, a theory is that the tortoise got buried in the depression for many thousands of years. God is so amazing... look at what corrasion can do to produce such pretty potholed-like tortoise! =)
Fun. Even the long walk out to the main road was fun! Haha! I guess sometimes the company does play a part...
An attempt at an artistic shot. It's the model that counts at time. =)
Ossim should get its inspiration from nature!
Oh Crystal Ball, pray tell art thou... why am I forced to take such shots??
Wow! Huge ice-cream scoop!! All my!! Wahahah!
I told you I can fit in here! -smug-
After spending like 5-6 hours in that little Geoglogical park, we headed for Ximending. This time, we were there to visit the Asian Food Court. My my... was the ambience enticing! It felt like we were in some posh restaurant! I ordered Kimchi Seafood Soup and it was served in a big metal bowl perched on a wooden tray.
Kel ordered grilled chicken with rice and soup. Sounds normal, but it was really yummy! Even the yakult was nice! *grin*
We had a walk around Ximending. It's really a shopping district ya... with its pedestrainized area and all. Lots of ah-lian stuff though. Heh. We ended up having douhua, which wasn't too yummy. Yet to find yummy douhua in Taiwan. Oh well.
This is the douhua and pearls.
Lou Wei. You choose the stuff like you do with yong tau fu, and they cook in herbal dark sauce for you.
We played basketball at the arcade, to see how many goals we could get. It's a hot thing in Taiwan, and the trained ones are really fantastic! No need for aiming and they are already guaranteed a 99% goal! We fumbled with our coordination... and were losers. Haha!
We went home after that, and did our usual dash to the exit from the underground shopping mall. Just a slight attempt to shed off some of the calories we took in. Heh.
We headed to Kee Lung (pronounced as Ji1 Long2), to catch a bus to Yeliu. We missed our stop and hence had to ask for directions to Yeliu. We enquired at a 7-11 and told to take a cab from up front. We were also asked to take from a driver surnamed Lee. When we went there, we had this feeling that ALL the taxi drivers had surname Lee! Hahaha!
Anyway, we finally arrived at Yeliu. And I was so excited! I was like in Geography heaven! All the rock formations were so exquisite! First-hand experience with the horizontal bedding planes, vertical joints, wave erosion, wind erosion, plate tectonics, weathering.... which gave rise to all kinds of formations, like the Queen's head rock, Fairies' Shoe, the mushroom-like landforms, potholes, etc. My gosh! I so enjoyed myself! Trigger-happy I was too! I was so happy I could have gone gila!
Queens' Head. Formed by aeolian (wind) weathering.
Fairies' Shoe. Isn't it amazing what erosion can do?!
Released into the wild, back onto the rock.
Onto the potholed landform.
Horizontal bedding planes.
Typical text book photo of weathering.
Cape out to sea, with pretty horizontal bedding planes of varying heights.
We started picking up baby seashells on the seashore. And guess what? i found a hermit crab! We played with it till it left its shell, in search of an undisturbed one. But we continued terrorizing it. Haha! Kel was so fascinated cos he had never seen one! In the end, we found 3 hermit crabs and we made them a happy family. Haha!
First toy. Hermit crab which migrated from one shell to another. Not shy.
Non-hermit crab. Found in a flooded pothole.
We ventured further, and entered the coastal area. We found caves, admired the strength of he wave erosion on the joints, admired the beauty of the sea, the many potholes which looked like tortoises, the water-filled potholes which threatened to swallow us in, etc.
Hmm, a theory is that the tortoise got buried in the depression for many thousands of years. God is so amazing... look at what corrasion can do to produce such pretty potholed-like tortoise! =)
Fun. Even the long walk out to the main road was fun! Haha! I guess sometimes the company does play a part...
An attempt at an artistic shot. It's the model that counts at time. =)
Ossim should get its inspiration from nature!
Oh Crystal Ball, pray tell art thou... why am I forced to take such shots??
Wow! Huge ice-cream scoop!! All my!! Wahahah!
I told you I can fit in here! -smug-
After spending like 5-6 hours in that little Geoglogical park, we headed for Ximending. This time, we were there to visit the Asian Food Court. My my... was the ambience enticing! It felt like we were in some posh restaurant! I ordered Kimchi Seafood Soup and it was served in a big metal bowl perched on a wooden tray.
Kel ordered grilled chicken with rice and soup. Sounds normal, but it was really yummy! Even the yakult was nice! *grin*
We had a walk around Ximending. It's really a shopping district ya... with its pedestrainized area and all. Lots of ah-lian stuff though. Heh. We ended up having douhua, which wasn't too yummy. Yet to find yummy douhua in Taiwan. Oh well.
This is the douhua and pearls.
Lou Wei. You choose the stuff like you do with yong tau fu, and they cook in herbal dark sauce for you.
We played basketball at the arcade, to see how many goals we could get. It's a hot thing in Taiwan, and the trained ones are really fantastic! No need for aiming and they are already guaranteed a 99% goal! We fumbled with our coordination... and were losers. Haha!
We went home after that, and did our usual dash to the exit from the underground shopping mall. Just a slight attempt to shed off some of the calories we took in. Heh.
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