Last week, my family and I had ourselves a three-day mini-vacation. We took a 1 1/2 hour boat ride to Penghu, which is a small group of islands just off the west coast of Taiwan. Though we had various excursions (documenting photos can be found in the photo album), one of the main highlights was fishing for squid at night.
We went squid fishing our first evening. In order to do so, we took a boat to a big floating platform out in the middle of the ocean. By the time we arrived, it was already dark. Good thing the platform was all lit up (which was quite a site), otherwise some people might have fallen into the ocean. Mainly though, the lights acted to lure all the squid and whatnots to their doom. Muahahaha.
This was my third time ever really fishing for something (trying to catch little fish in a bucket using paper paddles doesn’t count). My record at the time was 0 for 2. I had never caught anything yet. Little did I know, I would haul in three squid in that one night.
You can tell it was quite exciting.
Afterwards, we had ourselves a little feast. Some of that night’s catch was prepared as sashimi, but some of it was also cooked. After partaking of both, I decided that I preferred the cooked squid. Don’t get me wrong. I like sashimi and the squid sashimi was very fresh (considering one of them had only squirted me with water as I reeled it in half an hour ago). But because it was so fresh, it was somewhat lukewarm. Personally, I like my sashimi cold, like how they serve it in Japanese restaurants.
Another highlight of the trip was riding a motorcycle around the main island. Learning how to ride the motorcycle was fun. It picks up pretty easy, kind of like riding a bike, but faster and heavier. It was a wonderful feeling to ride down an open road at full speed, feeling the breeze in your face and watching the beautiful landscape pass by.