Photos of scat and a print from 成功台東 海拔 about 200 m, border of abandoned rice field about 5 km from the ocean
Traveling by train to Yuli 玉里, we stay in a B&B befire going to visit the site the next day in Chenggong 成功. Steve plans to develop a small homestead and friendly gathering place for yoga and other healthy living pursuits, and connect the site to the betterment of the local village community.
Landscaging around the B&B suggests plants that might thrive in the area
Crossing the stream, the road climbs following the contour to the west. About just south of the property the hardtop of the road ends where several maps show the road continuing. The road surface gone reveals a concrete pipe about 60 cm in diameter along the path. As we continue, the new 5 cm black plastic pipe to the source of water comes out of the ravine to join the road. As the former road crosses smaller ravines coming in from the south, metal skeleton frames which once supported the concrete aqueduct pipe over the ravines serve as short bridges. The cement pipe is empty and broken but seems to have once delivered a significant volume of water.
As we continue northwest following the former road the canyon becomes much more deeply cut. There are signs that a torrential event destroyed large sections of the road foundation and the water cut a severe gulley where the black plastic piping continues toward the water source but we opt for an easier route walking directly through the forest more northward to the top of the ridge.
We emerge to a cultivated area of open grassland and sparsely planted new orchards at the end of a paved road leading to a farmhouse. There is a 20,000 liter cistern here, intact and uncovered but no longer in use which may have been an intermediate storage system of the concrete aqueduct we followed up through the forest below.
Continuing west to connect to the main 石雨傘產業道路road system we rediscover the plastic piping running up to the water source again. After walking up the 玉水溪 valley for a few minutes we decide to complete our walk with a circuit by walking back down toward 石雨傘 and then over to the property. (See map image.) The valley seems lightly populated by fruit orchard operations in various stages from new deployment to abandoned farms.
