into the mystery lake

Into the mystery lake. The original naturereserve

Photo: nameless mountainhorn wild stream

Wen: somehow

Difficulty level: mediumXC

Highlights: pristinewetland, tropical rainforest, Off road control, ecological observation.

Must carry equipment:

Bicycle repair tools,water filters, raincoats, slippers.Antiallergic personal medication.

Recommended equipment:

Camping equipment,cooking equipment, clothes, telescopes, GPS.

In the grass on eitherside of the trail under the trees, a variety of insects can be seen at anytime. Every three or five steps, the alphas can break through the cobwebsblocking the way.And the two sides of the trail are always restless;Sometimesthe hidden pheasants panic away, but also a sudden jump from the grass of thefrog, often in the casual, quick action of the knife suddenly from the foot ofthe rapid slide.In the thick fog, I am not alone under the forest, since Ientered the mountain, there are countless eyes watching my actions.

The mysterious lake,about 1000 meters above sea level, is one of the closed lakes in the mountains.Although it is not far away from jinyang village, it has rugged mountain roads,complicated industrial roads and extremely primitive forests.Here is theprecious wet-succession observatory of the lake, but the water has beenshrinking year by year and is now more like an everglades, with an air of wildmystery that will one day disappear completely.

To visit the mysteriouslake early, but in order to protect the precious natural resources here, morestringent controls into the mountain, into the motocross bike is easy, but toenter the mountaineering approached the mysterious lake is hard to mouth, mustthrough the Luo Donglin pipe in application, and apply for the number of itemsand has great limitations, that is to say, the big team is absolutelyapplication however, preferably two or three people to on weekdays,

Test ofvehicle performance and driving

Mysterious lake townshipis located in the south Australian gold Yang Village mountains, to directlyfrom the south Australian gold Yang Village bike into the mysterious lake needsome courage and great physical strength, four-wheel drive car from goldenocean tribe, along with rice package mountain way forward uphill all the way tothe fence about 5 km, the general drive take 30 minutes or so, but for thosewho hasn't been to the mysterious lake, from gold Yang Village journey to amysterious lake that was far away, because this mountain crisscross inheritancepath is easy to let people go wrong, and continuous sharp curve, steep oneafter another, brilliant earth-rock crisscross roads will be continued to fenceafter several kilometers.We took the bike directly to the fence on a four-wheeldrive, and from there we rode to the mysterious lake, saving a lot of effort.

After passing thejinyang no. 2 bridge in jinyang village, the first fork ROAD starts to turnleft and uphill, which is a continuous steep slope. At the beginning, the ROADis paved with cement.In the wet earth and stone road not only to face acontinuous steep slope and sharp curves, each encounter fork road to choose themost likely direction, map only marked the location of the mysterious lake, butno indicators of the road, if not equipped with GPS navigation machine, everytime you go wrong, you have to get to the end to find the error.But on narrowindustrial roads it is often difficult to reverse, so if more than one car isgoing, it is best to leave enough space between the front and rear.

Along the road road roadroad every distance for the human uplift terrain, like the off-road locomotiveplatform general, wave after wave, through this terrain must be careful,chassis not high vehicles must slow down the speed, also must carefully choosethe route through, so as to avoid chassis hit.Several of them are very steepslope, after the rain is wet and muddy, the performance of the vehicle anddriving skills can be a test;Driving in this special road condition, in orderto prevent the wheels from slipping, no differential fixed vehicle may be moredifficult.

Top of the line

According to thetopographic map, the right turn is the right direction to the mysterious lakeafter entering the forest road. As you climb all the way, you can clearly seethe stream bed of nanxi in south Australia at your feet.Generally, the route isnot shown on the map, so the direction of contour line becomes the basis fordetermining the direction.As the altitude increases, when the trees along theway turn into artificial forests, they are approaching the fence.After reachingthe fence, you can see the sign "the length of south Australia south lineforest road 10k", the car can not enter here, we are in this group ofvehicles, there are people and bicycles can pass the fence, we enter the forestroad and start riding.

At the beginning, theforest looked like a forest road. The ground of Off road and the dense jungleof the two sides made the atmosphere very fresh and natural. However, the slopewas steep and difficult to ride.One of the benefits of this walking cart is thelight air you breathe and the opportunity to explore the ecological landscapeof the trail, including native wild birds and a variety of insects andreptiles.

Due to steep slope andsurface has been bumpy, ride ahead neither of them has a long distance to stoppant, even cart is every some distance to stop to rest, rest in a bend, abright yellow mouth was found no opinion lizard was climbing climbed up on theside of the backpack, for it, actually takes up more than half an hour'stime.In several beautiful curve sections, we also took some picture of riding,so three hours passed, road conditions began to gently can ride, along the waystill obvious traces of automobile tires, we follow the road mark continue totrample, when the surrounding forest right into the artificial cemetery, sooncan see a beautiful colony on the left, there is a mysterious lake trail entry,by the fence around the place so far distance is about 4.5 K.It takes about 40minutes to enter the mysterious lake from the entrance of the trail. Due to theunclear road conditions, we parked our bikes near the entrance and walked tocarefully observe the ecological landscape along the trail.

An ecological tour ofthe mysterious lake

All along the way, theforest was mysterious and primitive, and the chirping of insects and birdsnever stopped. Among the branches of the tall and dense primrose forest, therewere everywhere full of fat bird's nest ferns.Mountain indeed is the home ofthe animals in the forest, into the mouth, abnormal think countless pairs ofeyes watching my every move, a sudden commotion is sometimes hidden pheasantspanic away, also has a sudden leap up from the grass frog, often in casual,action quick moment by side quickly glide over the mountains. The knife, themost uncomfortable walking on the sidewalk is from the beginning to the end,there are mosquitoes around near the head, how to go also to throw away,anti-mosquito liquid is must be used at any time.

The diversity of insectspecies along the wet trail is quite high, and the number is amazing, even therainbow beetle, Taiwan's big shovel-shaped insect, long horn big shovel-shapedinsect and long arm golden turtle, a variety of rare insects in Taiwan, here isnot hard to see, even a lot of dung golden turtle.Walking in the woods, it iseasy to see squirrels jumping in the treetops. Blackbirds can be recognized asbamboo chickens, embroidered eye thrushes, white-eared thrushes, large-curvedbeak thrushes and brown-faced warblers.

Apart from the obviouspath, it was almost a wilderness.After passing a few slippery wooden trestles,the distance to the water is getting closer and closer, and the walking path isgradually disappearing. No one should come here for a long time.

Mysterious mountain nearlake due to rainfall amount, form the special terrain, swamp and rich resourcesand rare animals and plants around us, the treasure trove of species geneextremely primitive natural ecological environment, the current area declarednational nature reserves in south Australia broad-leaved forest, is Taiwan afew reservations of possessing characteristics of forests and lakes ecosystem.

The mysterious lake isclassified as an old closed alpine lake, shrouded in clouds all the year round.It is located between the heping river watershed and the upper reaches of nanxiin south Australia.Although the visit comes at a time when fog, unable to seethe outline of the mysterious lake, walk in the water still can be found thatthe lake has a profound accumulation, here the most abundant limnetic shenwater plants in Taiwan, in addition to shen water plants, mysterious and sacredalso grows on lake water of the lake and duckweed both floating plants,including sacred year-round deep red colour, and is one of the mostrepresentative landscape mysterious lake.

The lake is full of alot of algae, surrounded by lush swamp MaoCaoCong miscanthus floridulusformation, and accumulated over time, gradually to the lake center to promotegrowth, finally, miscanthus also may be replaced by trees, because here thesuccession of natural environment of lakes and swamps plants with the ebb andflow of forest ecological phenomenon, now the amount of water can only rely onrainfall to sustain, maybe in a few years this mysterious lake willdisappear.Hiding in the lake area is not large, the red crown mouth-watering,low water duck, little 䴙Ti, yuanyang, such as water, there is a great place to observe the naturalecology.

Take your bike tomystery lake

After all, theundulations of forest road are large, and the road surface along the way hasseveral bumps, plus the road condition bumps, with shock absorber before andafter the thicker all-terrain vehicle is more suitable.It is possible to ridefaster and faster without even realizing it. Although this part of the road isa lot of fun to ride, it is also a little dangerous because the road here isslippery after rain.And if has been declining rapidly, obviously it isdifficult to find on either side of the focus switched back to the golden YangVillage below, it is best to take a telescope, because the bird here is veryrich, in addition, there are several along the mountain spring water, canchoose to take a break, as long as a few seconds, can also be found around thepool rich aquatic ecosystem.

Although the south lineof south Australia forest road because of the steep slope, but if the use offour-wheel drive with a bicycle to the mysterious lake, then the return tripdownhill to enjoy the strong wind on the face of the downhill pleasure, will bethe most exciting and enjoyable section.Whether it's a quick ride down the roador a view of nature, riding a bike is more fun than riding a car.But who willdrive the car down the hill?

Must do drinking waterpreparation - filter water quality 037

Mountain bike riding onthe rugged forest road in summer, if you have to bear a lot of drinking wateris a hard thing, in the forest near the mountain stream on the mostrefreshing;In addition to enjoy the pleasure of downhill, is at any time can beeasily added cool and refreshing drinking water.However, in the seemingly cooland sweet stream, there are still a lot of bacteria and suspended particleshidden, if drinking directly is not safe, so carrying a portable filter is thebest way.We brought two types of water filters with us on this trip, each withits own benefits, both of which are highly recommended and sold in many outdoorstores.

1. AQUAMIRA® activatedcarbon water bottle (filter 1 filter 1-1)

Install the filter coredirectly into the soft 650ml Nelgene sports water bottle. After filling thebottle up to 8 points, lift the cover and bite the suction nozzle directly. Itis drinkable just like a normal water bottle.

This filter water filterfor the unique design of the labyrinth of thick wall system, the complexfiltering channel can filter ninety-nine percent harmful microorganisms,including pear-shaped giardia, cryptosporidium, and originate etc., of course,it also can filter to 2 microns - escherichia coli, and aquatic eggs, forexample, the activated carbon can filter some chemicals, and remove thepeculiar smell in the water.A normal clear stream can be refilled with morethan 200 bottles of water.

2. AQUAMIRA®lightweight water straws (water filter 2, water filter 2-1)

The idea is to insertthe filter core directly into a straw, which is as easy as drinking a drink.Inhot weather, there's nothing better than jumping into a cool stream and takingone of these straws with you.

Of course, you don'thave to do this every time you drink water. The straws are designed with auniversal 28mm port and can be combined with various water containers, makingit easy to carry water while drinking.And because it's small;Light weight, easyto carry, it is the best personal equipment for outdoor activities.

Notes:

1. After enteringjinyang village, there is a concrete road on the left, which is the entrance.

2. There is water at theentrance of the mysterious lake.There is no shortage of water along the trail,but it should be filtered before drinking.

3. The trail along themysterious lake is slippery and full of insects and snakes.

4. If you ride a bicycleon fanbao mountain road in south Australia, it is better to have a full shockabsorber.

5. Avoid back-to-backvacations and camp for the night.The overnight place can choose south Australiasouth stream bank.

6. The hinterland ofnanxi river in south Australia is spacious and can accommodate dozens of tents.

7. The mysterious lakeis not open to general visitors. Application forms should be downloaded fromthe website of luo donglin management department.

Traffic information:

Taipei to Hualiendirection from Taiwan nine provincial road (suhua highway) through suao, eastAustralia and then to south Australia, go straight across the south Australiabridge right turn yi57 road to the direction of jin Yang village can meet thejin Yang 2 bridge, after passing the jin Yang 2 bridge the first turn leftuphill, is a continuous steep slope.Turn right at the first fork in the road,turn left at the second fork in the road, follow this industrial road can reachthe mountain entrance.