What am I doing here?

Is what I find myself asking (myself) a lot lately. And sometimes other people ask me that too. So I started this blog, so that I can know, and you can know.

Yesterday, I participated in an abortive expedition to Turtle Island, off the coast of northeastern Taiwan. It is apparently very beautiful. However, I never got to step foot on it because the waves were too big to land. I could only gaze at its dark jade peaks sloping out of the haze, and as we got closer, the waves crashing on its craggy coast. Yea I guess it was beautiful. We went with a coast guard boat, apparently to pick up some people in orange jumpsuits. When we couldn't land, the captain told them to swim. They wouldn't swim. We wouldn't swim. So they didn't get on and we didn't get off. We did somehow pick up a man with a laptop from another dock. Business man? On a 1 sq. mile island? Secret agent? He was kind of pudgy. Maybe that makes a less suspicious spy.

I will let you know what exactly I am doing on this island (Turtle Island) when I find out myself. It has something to do with tracking bats.

Here is a view of Turtle Island from the air.