Boardwalks
The boardwalks snake back and forth over the beach. Every once in a while you find a building like this one. Some are maintenance shacks, some are gift shops and some sell drinks and snacks. There even was a shrine but the signs were all Chinese. One Chinese fellow dropped his hat over the railing. There was a lot of discussion about the best way to retrieve it. Getting down to the mud flat is easy, getting back a bit tricky. We saw his wife walking along with what looked like our crab fishing poles and later we saw him with his hat! We should have stayed to watch.
For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more 
