Trip to Caoling and Longdong

I keep going back to old things, so I can put up some nices pictures. The last Saturday of November, 29th, I went to the NTNU Earth Sciences Department outing to Caoling and Longdong, on the coast, East of Taipei. The first cold days had arrived and that morning was a little bit chilly, but with a perfectly blue sky and a beautiful Sun.

Only a few months before, an old abandoned railroad tunnel had been open to the public again, after not being used for years because of the new tunnel built next to it. Now, the path/road is new. It branches off the road from Fulong and then goes into the tunnel, which can only be used by bikes or pedestrians. The tunnel is about 2 km long, and it has many sound effects of trains coming and going, whistles, the sound of the tracks, etc


At the exit on the southern side of the tunnel,

full of people (we are in Taiwan, don't forget it),

there is a view of a nice patch of the coast

with Turtle Island in front of it.


We went from here to have lunch —lots of fish and seafood, all very tasty—, and after that, we went to LongDong Cape to take a walk. The coastline is very similar to the one in Yehliu, to the North following the coast, but a little bit more rugged


with some cliffs

strangely shaped rocks,


a lighthouse,

a winding path along the crest of the cliffs,

the same type of rocks I saw more to the North,


and a show in the sky


It was more that two months ago, but it was a very nice day. Specially, and it's funny living in an island, because I was next to the ocean after months without seeing it. A very beautiful blue sea, of the kind that fills the eyes and the soul with calmness.