Friday morning, I was out the (hotel) door about 6am for a run. It was already so hot, so humid. I ran up a road, down the same road, around a school, back the same way, and returned to the Oceanic Pearl. I saw one other runner while I was out. Something tells me running isn't really a thing on Liuqiu (also, it's hilly!).
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| View from my run. |
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| I'm astounded at the number of video cameras across Taiwan. They are everywhere. Can you see the four cameras in this photo? I felt a little weird even taking the photo...like, are the Taiwan police going to come after me for snapping a pic of video cameras? Literally, they are all over. (Is this how they keep an eye on China? Is this why everyone and everything is so orderly? Inquiring minds want to know.) |
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| Our two scooters parked out front of the Oceanic Pearl Resort. #scooterlife |
Our sweet Oceanic Pearl hostess made breakfast for her guests. Breakfast opened at 7am, and we enjoyed another good buffet.
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| After breakfast and before the beach. |
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| I'm pretty sure this is Tim's resting camera face. |
After breakfast, we took our scooters for a spin around the island. Riding those things is so fun; it's how everyone gets around Liuqiu. We swung by the scooter shop to replace our batteries and then motored back to our B&B, where we got ready to spend time at the beach.
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| We saw this temple -- one of so many -- during our scooter ride around the island. |
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| Scooter shot. |
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| Another scooter shot. |
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| Scooters for days by the port. |
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| The shop where we rented our scooters. |
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| We took a riding break to grab a delicious cold drink in town. |
Taylor and I scootered over to Gebon Beach while Tim and Wyatt hit up a nearby snorkeling shop; they rented masks and booties, then continued on to Secret Beach for some snorkeling. When they met us at Gebon Beach an hour-ish later, they raved about the snorkeling. They had seen about a dozen sea turtles near the reef!
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| I could get used to this view... |
We all grabbed lunch together and then rode over to the snorkeling shop so Taylor and I could rent gear. From there, we scootered to Secret Beach for more snorkeling. We saw sea turtles and fish and sea urchins and the super cool reef. It was beautiful!
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| This was lunch: mango snow ice. (I could get used to this, too.) |
Secret Beach isn't really a beach for hanging out (it's all rocks), so when we finished snorkeling, we returned to Gebon Beach. A little while later, we were back on our scooters. We did one more battery exchange at the scooter shop and then headed for the Oceanic Pearl to rinse off from the day.
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| We also saw this very cool lighthouse on the island -- from 1929! |
That night, we tried once again to eat dinner at Hard Rock. We felt pretty good about our prospects, because we had ridden by earlier and there was a sign out front that read: "Open 6-9pm." But when we rode up after 6pm, there was another sign on the door: "This is our day off." Same one as the night before. ;) Across the street from Hard Rock was a Thai restaurant. We were hungry enough and didn't need to look further. Thai it was for dinner...followed by one more scooter ride back to our B&B!
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