Under the resplendent September sun, while trucks roar past us on the Suao-Hualien Highway, straight down a sheer 1000-meter cliff wall the far more serene-looking Pacific Ocean, which has been part of the lives of the peoples of this island for thousands of years, stretches off over the horizon.
9 月初豔陽高照，蘇花公路上卡車呼嘯而過，一千多公尺的斷崖下，蔚藍的太平洋伸展於無垠天際，千百年來靜靜地陪伴著這塊島嶼上的子民。