In the old days, Tanshui folk who cultivated farms on the slopes had to walk for an hour to get to their crops. These days you can take a local mini-bus. In the mountains you will see the occasional terraced field grown over with weeds. This land, which has gone from grass to grain and back to grass again, is where many an old Tanshui native played when they were children.
昔日在山上靠種田維生的老淡水得花個把鐘頭往鎮上跑，今日搭乘社區小巴士往山上繞，依稀可見的梯田長滿雜草，那曾有一大片一大片由綠轉黃再轉綠的田埂，該是許多老淡水兒時蹦蹦跳跳的遊戲場。