On the east coast, under the precipitous cliffs which face into the vastness of the Pacific Ocean, it took the Lanyang River a million years to build up the Lanyang Plain, where the people of 12 townships today live and work; but sadly the land along Ilan County's coastline is now gradually being returned to the sea.
在前方盡是大海的東岸，為了讓今人安身立命，蘭陽溪耗百萬年的光陰，才在萬丈深崖中沖積出擁有十二個鄉鎮的蘭陽平原；只惜今天宜蘭靠海的鄉鎮，土地逐漸在回歸太平洋。