The Taiwan Adventure 2: : Daxi District, Zhongyu Left Bank Park

Today was an absolutely beautiful day. So, we decided to take a roll around the lake at Daxi District Zhongyu Left Bank Park(大溪區中庒左岸公園). Actually, it has a much longer, more descriptive name on Google maps, but I don’t have the space here to type it all. If I’m being honest only I rolled, Elizabeth had to walk.

The temperature was 25 Celsius (about 77 Fahrenheit), with a nice breeze. If I don’t get out when the weather is nice, I go a bit stir crazy. Its not like it’s a long drive to crazy for me, but it’s worse if I don’t get out. So, thankfully, Elizabeth and Eric are on board for getting me outside.

Really, I’m just as happy going to the mall, or Costco or someplace, but I prefer to go where nature lives; you know where trees are. My favorite thing is bird photography. That’s what I really like to do. It’s not unusual to find me out in the rice fields, or by a creek, or river. But that will have to wait until I get my mobility scooter. It’s really hard to get where the wild things are, in my wheelchair. The wheels are too skinny for one thing. It’s not as powerful, for another. So, I have a tendency to stick to paved roads, where there are a lot of people around. But where there’s more people there’s less birds.

We did manage to finds some Egrets, though. Great Egrets are my very favorite bird. We saw a few of those, some Light-vented Bulbuls, a few barn swallows, (I dare you to try and get a decent shot of one of those babies as they zoom by), and a lone turtle. We even saw a single Tilapia swimming next to the bank.

We didn’t have an opportunity to cross the Zhongzhuang Suspension bridge this trip, but we planned out how to do that on the next trip to Daxi. It was a great afternoon, I’m looking forward to the next trip, maybe Bade Pond Eco Park. It’s always aa good time when you go with young people. Until then, Happy Trails.