Trip to Yeliou

On Stacey's last day we went to Yeliou. Before we started our trip, we stopped by 7-11 to get some water and snacks. One of the popular food items you can fine in almost every 7-11 are boiled eggs. The water they are boiled in is brown from tea and other spices. On the day of our trip to Yeliou, Stacey and Brian decided to try one. When Brian and I first saw them, we were a little concerned about the eggs floating in what seemed like very dirty water.

Stacey and Brian tried their eggs at the same time. They could not put their finger on the spices/flavors of the egg. They determined it was not bad or as strong as they though it would but, both of them prefer their hardboiled eggs plain over tea soaked.

Yeliou is a long cape located on the Northeast coast of Taiwan formed by Dantun Mountain. The park is famous for its strange rock formations. Some of the rocks here are more than 200 million years old. What the heck was going on 200 million years ago? According to National Geographic, the first small furry animals started to appear and Dinosaurs were well on their way to dominating the Earth. Would you like to see the time line of earth (estimated 4.6 billion year history)? Please click on the following link: National Geographic time line.

Here we are starting our walk/hike around the cape.


When we began our walk on the rocks. We noticed the rocks were crawling with swarms of some kind of beach creature. They would scatter as you walked closed to them and moved with similar speed and motion as a cockroach. I got a close up of one and it is definitely not a cockroach but, we have no idea what they were.

Do you have any ideas what these could be? I did some unsuccessful searches on the internet and have no answers yet.

This looked like a doughnut surrounded by doughnut holes.

Perhaps mother nature was having some sugar cravings?

Brian is standing above "honey comb" rock and sweating buckets. We did not realize our walk would turn into a hike in what felt like 100+ degree weather.


Stacey and I are pictured here at the peak of our walk/hike. This was by far the sweatiest we had been on all of our adventures.

Luckily, the camera was very forgiving and we do not appear as disgusting as we felt.

So, why does humid heat feel hotter than dry heat? There are a few reasons and the explanations get pretty technical but, the gist of it goes something like this: the body prevents internal temperature increase by releasing the heat from the surface of the skin through the evaporation of sweat. However, in humid conditions, humid heat does not allow sweat to evaporate from the skin. This makes you stay hot longer and prevents the body from cooling down quickly. So, its not that you actually sweat more than you would in dry heat, its just that your sweat has nowhere to go. Would you like to learn more about humidity and the heat index? Go to the following link: humidity and the heat index.

Here is the most famous rock formation, the "Queen's head."

Can you see it? Her face is looking to the right and it looks like she has a very elaborate headpiece on.

This group of formations is referred to as the mushroom rocks. Almost looks like a field of mushrooms.

So, how did these rocks get this way? Aliens? Humans? This cove contains limestone which is subject to sea erosion, weathering and earth movements. Would you like to learn about coastal erosion? Click here.

You can see in the following pictures where earth movements caused the rocks to shift and project.


Would you like to learn more about Yeliou? Please go click on the link: I want to know more!