Su-ao the fisher village

As my father had some rest, next day we took a trip to the East cost. After a long drive (mostly in tubes under the mountains) we reached a very nice fisher village called Su-ao. The main attractions are the Buddhist temple – where some local ceremony was held – and the fisher harbour. When the small groups of local fishers arrived by their boats, they unloaded the catch right away for sale on the fish market. Each group has a place on the market where the family members conduct the selling. The fish offer is always fresh and so various, I have never seen these kind of fishes before. The atmosphere of the busy market called forth a lunch on the port side. The food was very delicious of course except the small purple polyps what was impossible to chew and I just had some feeling that it may not be the best to eat these animals with their very dark purple liquid what I associate with poison… My father thought that the only thing why it is not so delicious that we eat it in a wrong way… I guess he will say this for many Taiwanese foods. :)
Later we left the village to find a nice beach on the southern way. We reached a small bay where a river joins to the sea. The beach side was shingly but the waves were nice for a bath. The landscape around the bay and also the life of the fisher village gave a typical picture of Taiwan for my father who is getting to like this place…

Here are some pictures about this trip:
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