...the view from here...
We took a ride this weekend, a day trip, to the north. Towards the town of GuangFu, where Japanese occupation turned fields of rice and forests of bamboo and camphor into fields of sugarcane. Then turned almost the entire rift valley of rice, forests of bamboo and camphor and cloud trees and myriad other species into....sugarcane. Thats a story for another trip.
We stayed on the back roads, Highway 193, which offered more of a palcid rice-paddy environment than the main road, Highway 9. We started by actually biking through the maze of roads that permeates the rice fields themselves near our house, then latched back onto 193 and rode along the backwoods of Taiwan, passing by farms, fields, forests and birds, birds and more birds!! Above Crystal is perturbing an Egret, either on its way to Japan, or on its way back from Japan. Ill ask it next time.
Here Trevor pedals away amongst the fields of rice; to the right is a view of rice (foreground), pineapples (mid) and betel nut palms (background). These crops are common, rice obviously, around these parts. Along with these arepomelo trees, orange trees, all veggies and tubers and melons and nuts you can name.
An election signs. Common as election signs themselves, and also as props for scarecrows once the election is over. The rice fields are replete with election banners from years gone by, apparently enough to scare off offending birds (see field video below!)
Us taking a break alongside a bridge before the actual backroad section of 193 began snacking on carrots and almonds. And an add for massive pomelos to be eaten be equally massive people. This area is prime pomelo territory, so the trees, the signs and the common sight of pomelos on the road, in roadside stalls, at the market, in barbershops, dropped from trees in various fields and forests...everywhere.
We wondered what all those strings were for...until she did this....
