Yeliu

Yeliu is a small town on the north coast of Taiwan. The cape there has a fishing harbor and remarkable rock formations. It is a beautiful view of the ocean, but also the rocks there are interesting.




Jesse explained how all these different formations were created, but I won't bore you with the details. (I think it is interesting though.)







Despite being very windy out on the cape (witness the total destruction of our umbrella), it was still quite humid, hot, and sweaty. We ate delicious mango 'icecrushers' at the park cafe after we returned to the entrance. Most of the other restaurants around there serve seafood, which Jesse really does not care to eat here. It is not because he does not like fish, but rather, he does not like 1. the many snake and snail like sea creatures served as seafood here and 2. the way it is prepared and 3. excavating your meal from its shell. So we decided to go back into town for dinner. We ended up at the famous dumpling restaurant DinTaiFung which will have to be another blog entry.



We were also really interested in the boats in the harbor. Here you can see two crab boats (the white ones) and two squid boats (the blue ones). The squid boats fish at night, so you can see the lights strung across the top of the boats. We took lots of the photos of the boats and their equipment. The fishermen thought we were strange or lost. I asked one man if we could photograph his boat, and he responded that he did not own the boat, so he did not know. I think some of the men who work on the fishing boats are Indonesian, Malaysian, or Filipino.