Last day of the Chinese New Year Holidays. Weather still sucks.
Kitty and I decided to take the car out for a spin. We went up to the north coast. It's a beautiful area with lots to see; unfortunately, as we got closer and closer to our destination, the weather got worse so it was hard to see anything. It poured with rain (but rain is all too common on the north coast).
One place we wanted to see was something I learned about last year when I was doing a tourism-related translation project. It's called the Laomei Algal Reef. It's very close to Fugui Cape, the northernmost point of Taiwan. When we got there, miraculously the rain stopped.
The Laomei Algal Reef is a series of sea-eroded rocks upon which accumulated algae grows. The rocks have been carved by the elements into unusual shapes.
Here's a bare section of the reef, with Fugui Cape in the background:
There's evidence of a past military presence in the area. Here's a pillbox:
Then we decided to go back...we had to get back to Neihu and find a place to park. Then we spent some time with Kitty's family.
