the way that taichung meets the sea

the road leads beyond dadu mountain to the west to the empty and desolate landscape of the docklands. here empty buildings that once housed the imported goods being sold alternate with enormous storage facilities, container yards, a power plant and a steel mill. to the north the gaomei wetlands where birds stalk the mudflats and kids play army games in abandoned buildings while a red and white watchtower looks on. the village is clustered around the temple square and grows rice in the fields reclaimed from the sea by the bund wall. this bund wall runs all along the coast with windmills on the other side making cultivable land, duck farms and ponds for fishing on the weekend.