A visit to Umbrella island (外傘頂洲)
I made a quick visit to an island in Jiayi called 外傘頂洲, or something like Umbrella island, recently
Frustrated over local inconsistency, how to pronunce the characters (嘉)? The locals never care, cus they never use the alphabet, but for visitors, same charaacter has many ways of spelling (making it hard for the locals to understand foreigners, cus the taiwanese are very pronunciation sensitive)
I passed by an oyster market
And had some local seafood
A map showing my destination
A boat heading 50 minutes out, looking like a swedish House boat
The tour was 3 times per day
More local food
And alot of frustration on which boat to take
Some flood at the hardbor
And a fjällräven bag
The boat had speakers playing loud Karaoke music
And a guide taling about the island we were heading to, not sure about its english name
Many boats heading out
Some caravan, but these boats made anothr tour more north first
And the safety, each seat has a west...
And some more Karaoke (KTV)
After a while we passed by some bridges
And in the horizon we could spot some bigger bridge
And after another 10 minutes, we hit the island
Just a sand bank, that apparently is heading more south for each year, I was told it moves p and down, but I cannot confirm which story is the truth...
The locals got toys to play in the sand with
More tourists
The boat was here for 1 hour, enough time to play around on this small place
Wiki page for 外傘頂洲:
Some bridge...
And locals collecting water
Other sculptures reminding me of Nimis in sweden (but far smaller)
I also found a shipwreck
With some mattress inside, mabye for lost tourists
And more sand digging locals
BLue sky horizon
And intersting patterna in the sand
And a crab
Mountains could be spotted at Jiayi
I think the big one is Alishan, but could recall that I saw Jiayi from Yushan, so i think one peak also is Yushan (highest peak on taiwan, 3952m)
People queuing up for geting back on the boat
Food and KTV
Oyster and sea food
Mountians getting closed
After another 50 minutes we were bac in Jiayi (Dongshi fishermans wharf)
Many kites in the air
And many tourists chilling at the harbour
I also spotetd some oyster shell truck
And East coast alert" (meaning no helmet and no trafic light usage)
No-helmet-alert!
Nice mountain view
I think I could get to yushan in 1-2 hours by scooter from here
Many small ponds with fish, the machines are adding oxygen
Omg, an ISO-9001 building
Sunset at Jiayi
No-helmet-alert!
I also passed by a Blua high heel shoe church, that once was mentioend in Swedish TV.
It msut be warm in there during summer days...
Another visit was a giand Egg
And this burgerbar
It seemed rather new...but wasnt that special
Menu in English...
Some explanation how they make their burgers in chinese...
And the classical buzzer for people waiting for their meal
A set, or something...food is always cheaper in southern taiwan
Next stop; the only bar in Jiayi
I had a Tiramisu drink
I also saw Alexander Skarsgårds new movie poster
And his name in Chinese...(亞歷山大斯卡斯加德): Yàlìshāndà sīkǎsījiādé
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