2019

Gengfang Fishing Harbor 梗枋漁港

2018

Xiaocukeng trail 小粗坑古道
Houtong Station 猴硐
Houtong Station 猴硐
瑞三礦業整煤廠
intriguing ridge
tree growing over a wall gone
Wolfgang investigates the ruins
Xiaocukeng trail 小粗坑古道
Xiaocukeng trail 小粗坑古道
ruins of stone homes
looking toward Houtong 猴硐

ruins of stone homes
Xiaocukeng trail 小粗坑古道
protector of the miners 山神廟
temple for the mountain god 山神廟
meeting on the trail
turn off toward Houtong 猴硐
toward Keelung 基隆
Xiaocukeng trail 小粗坑古道
Jiufen 九份
Xiaocukeng trail 小粗坑古道
trail head

2017

2016

10.3 km hike on Wantan trail 灣潭古道
Taiwan Beauty Snake, Striped racer 錦蛇 (jǐnshé), 黑眉錦蛇, 黃長蟲 Elaphe taeniura friesei
Taiwan Beauty Snake, Striped racer 錦蛇 (jǐnshé), 黑眉錦蛇, 黃長蟲 Elaphe taeniura friesei
dead female Swinhoe's Pheasant 藍腹鷴 (lán fù xián) Lophura swinhoii

Euphea formosa 短腹幽蟌 (duǎn fù yōu cōng)
Wantan trail 灣潭古道

trail workers
domestic ducks
Wantan
Formosan Jewelwing 白痣珈蟌 (bái zhì jiā cōng) Matrona cyanoptera
trail to Zhushan 竹山
Wantan stream 灣潭溪
Common Kingfisher 普通翠鳥 (pǔtōng cuì niǎo) Alcedo atthis
Dan's leach
Wantan stream 灣潭溪
stone enclosure outside kitchen




kitchen?

to Wushan 烏山 and Zhushan 竹山 mountains
Wantan stream 灣潭溪


Wantan trail 灣潭古道
Wantan stream 灣潭溪

Wantan stream 灣潭溪

Asian giant hornet 大虎頭蜂 (dà hǔ tóu fēng) Vespa mandarinia

female Swinhoe's Pheasant 藍腹鷴 (lán fù xián) Lophura swinhoii



BeiShiXi 北勢溪
Soudelour repairs
88k ride to Fulong
at the Fubar in Fulong
Fubar
Fulong beach 福隆
Ziggy buying tickets
Fulong train station 福隆車站
to the coastal road

2014

Lotus leaves stand up out the water and are rounder with a less clear cleave in the leaves.

Lotus leaves are rounder with a less clear cleave in the leaves.

Golden grass along the pond edge
Golden grass along the pond edge


Water lillies
Gavin, Philip and Tammy checking out the water lilly and lotus growing ponds
Emerging twins
Bees pollinating the water lilly flowers
harvested lotus pond
Looking over the constructed grow ponds
Kankong, water spinach
Remnants of the harvest
lotus seed ponds
lotus leaf
water lilly leaf - serrated edges and cleaved
Emerging
Lovely rural scenery
Lotus and water lilly ponds
Information about the local area










Bamboo like caning structure
Reed flowers full of seed
Gavin
Local reed thick with flower heads
Dan talks to photographer about dead ducks
Philip
Zone IV reference
More dead ducks
Dead ducks
Dan
Philip
Nitrogen-fixing mimosa family plant?
Mallow family plant
水丁香
A mix of water-loving plant species
Diversity at the rice field edge

Picture perfect
Trains come through every ten minutes or less
Looking over the rice field
Great egret
Great egret
Rice not too long from harvest time
Magpie eating grubs in the loose soil
Bright red dragon fly
train passage
Herbicide spraying
Herbicide spraying
Shrike on top of covered rice straw stack
Philip watching the train
train passing
Gavin stairing down the train
A larger egret
Dan up on the raised tracks crossing over the wetlands
Dan and Philip on the raised train tracks
Plover? Sandpiper?
Gavin
Intermediate or Chinese Egret

Tammy looking out over the Tianliaoyang 田寮洋 wetland
Tawny-flanked prinia 褐頭鷦鶯 (hè tóu jiāo yīng) Prinia Prinia subflava

2012

Philip, Tammy, Wendy
Liran, Peter, Brent


Jack says good-bye

The kids
Jack


Philip, Brent, Jack



Dan, Jack, Peter

Angela, Philip, Jessie, Tammy

the next generation

Wendy, Jessie, Liran
Peter, Revital, Tammy, Philip
Tammy, Philip, Dan
Jesse, Jack
trail head
homestead at the trail head



looking northwest toward Shuanghsi 雙溪
water buffalo 水牛 (shuǐniú) Bubalus bubalis
grazing

pagoda on the bluff



inscriptions on the side of the little temple
earth god shrine

Dan soaks it in
cattle block on the trail
Turtle island through the rain to our southeast


rain on the ocean from the bluffs
cattle grazing in the grasslands opposite the eastern coast