Father’s Day 父親節

Father’s Day can also be written as爸爸節 or Ba ba Jie, which is a homonym for August 8th 八月八日. We went down to the ocean on a beautiful Father’s Day with my parents and my in-laws to have seafood by the harbor. It sounds like a nice idea and so seemingly 1000s of other people had exactly the same idea.

But strangely, I liked the experience. Maybe it was the challenge. First is the task of finding a table. We waited like vultures in a certain area by the water for the first table to open up. It is part sales technique and part good old-fashioned patience. Finally, a woman who spoke no English at all (my parents discovered this) had pity on us and decided that we were the ones worthy to inherit the table as they left. Then we got our fresh BBQd fish, octopus 花枝 and oysters 蠔 and sat down by the water for the show.

There are always a variety of sea life. We have seen sea lions海獅 and porpoises 海豚. This time it seemed to be bird life. We saw pelicans 鵜鶘 and a type of bird which is rare to me and hopefully someone out there can identify.