Covering 50 square kilometers of sandy, salty land, the area endures a climate of hot temperatures, little rain, and a seasonal wind from the mainland which blows from September to February, filling the air with sand and making rice farming extremely difficult.
地是沙地，人可不能是散沙全鄉五十平方公里竟是沙質鹽土，且氣候炎熱，雨量少。每年九月到隔年二月，大陸來的季節風南下，台西首當其衝，風起之處，飛沙滿天，稻穀不易結穗，一般人只能靠甘薯、花生等雜作，和沿海捕魚維生。