The Beach Near XiaPu

 Continuing the story of the trip to TaiMu Shan:  After nine or so hours on the bus, we arrived to the small town of XiaPu.  There was not much time that evening to do anything other than check into the hotel and then venture out to find some food.  A lovely woman named  Chen XiaoHua was my guardian angel for the evening.  She was my guardian angel for pretty much the entire week-end.  Betty, which is her Western name, and her husband invited me to tag along with them in search of local seafood.

 We found a local place where the seafood was on display in a cooler outside and the game required you to bargain for what you wanted first.  After Betty and her husband struck a deal, we went inside to a little room with a round, plastic patio table.  On top, though, was a restaurant-quality, glass Lazy Susan.  (Whomever sells these Lazy Susans must be the richest person in China. ) The chosen items were cooked up very nicely, and we all left with happy bellies.

The schedule for the next morning was to leave the hotel at 8:30 to go a local beach.  Betty and husband invited me to go with them, at 4:30 in the morning, to watch the sun rise over the China Sea.  Part of me wanted to go, but another part of me did not want to intrude on their romantic sunrise experience.  And all parts of me did not want to get up at 4:00 am in the morning.  So I took a pass on the sunrise.

So the next morning, we went to the beach near Xiapu.  The scenery was beautiful. That's about all there is to say about that.  I'll just let the photos tell the rest of the story.

But credit where credit is due - Betty's husband had a killer digital SLR camera.  He is also a very good photographer.  Only the top photo is mine.  The rest are all the photos that he took...before sunrise, after sunrise, and on the beach near XiaPu.