we woke up at 5am plus.. watched the sunrise! we din really sleep alot.. lol!





bathed at 6am plus and we were all ready by 7am plus. went down for breakfast but it wasn't ready. i went around taking photos of the surroundings..

ate breakfast at 8am. went whale watching at 9am at 花莲渔港马码头。



the waves were big.. choppy waters.. shaky boat.. like a rollarcoaster.. the boat was supposedly to be driven to the middle of the sea where we were supposed to see the whales or rather dolphins.. it was quite a long journey to the middle of the sea, i think about half an hr?

i was afraid i will get giddy and so i closed my eyes throughout the journey.. we reached the middle of sea, the boat stopped, and we saw dolphins!! not 1 or 2.. but few hundreds (as told by the guide), i only know its ALOT of dolphins.. and they jumped together, went down into the water together.. an orderly bunch.

we even saw one species of dolphins, where it jumped out of the water, turned in the air and back into the water again. wow! unfortunately, i forgot the name of that species..

and soon, we were on our way back to the jetty. both to-and-fro journey, we were all splashed with seawater and salt formed on our face, arms, legs, eyes and neck when the water dries up.. hahaha, a sticky feeling.

we reached the jetty, and our taxi driver for the day, 陈福万先生 (car plate license no. 967-EQ)， drove us to Taroko National Park.





marble, marble and more marble!! hills, mountains, rivers, lakes with clear blue water! our driver, very knowledgeable, knew about almost everything! and he is super friendly, told us alot of things, and very excited abt telling us stories, introducing to us certain things and more!

saw a rainbow when we were going down the mountain. it was a rainbow amongst the mountains.

陈先生 treated us to bubble tea!!



thereafter, he brought us to 七星谭。 a very beautiful sea shore with high tides, high waves, cool wind and alot of stones!! we picked nice stones as well as stone for 刘阿姨.



陈先生 brought us back to the 花莲渔港马码头 for fresh sashimi! so fresh!!! there was one, 飞鱼蛋, super nice, a chewy feeling when u bite. hmm.. and we had fishball soup, the fishball taste different from the ones we have here, but its nice and yummy!

he drove us to the train station, where we bought our train tickets to 瑞坊 (our 2nd 民宿).

went to the city area of 花莲, where we ate oyster omelette and 排骨面.

wanted to go back and rest but 刘阿姨 drove us to watch dance performances by 原住民。 nice performances! i liked it!



we bought fireworks! and soon we were on our way back to stone house to play with fireworks! my god, my first experience!!

the fireworks! very beautiful.. spark! spark! spark! just infront of us! just above us! wah.. its an unforgetable sight! and.. we took video!!!



went back to our room, bathed. went downstairs to paint a stone for 刘阿姨.
石在精彩！！！ something we left for 刘阿姨...
done and bed at 1am plus...