Quemoy Day 3: Secret Military Adventures/金門三日目：軍隊秘密の報告

金門の三日目は前の二日間よりちょっと晴れたので、「馬山」に向かって行った。「馬山」と言うのは金門の最北端で、もっとも共産党が支配している領土に近いところだ。（本土じゃなくて、小さな島だけど。）

Our third day at Quemoy was a bit sunnier than the previous two, so we decided to go to Mashan, the northernmost point of Quemoy.  Not only is it the northernmost point of the island, but it's also the closet point to any PRC controlled territory.  (The territory it's close to is not the mainland proper, but rather a small island, but still, we wanted to have a look.)

第三天跟以前兩天比起來比較晴天了，所以我們決定去“馬山”。馬山就是金門島的最北端。在金門島的西北部。它也是在金門島離大陸統治的地方最近的地方。（不是真的大陸，只是一個小島。）

モロコシの畑

More Sorghum fields

高粱的農場

ここも慈湖と同じく、海がダムに切り離されたみたいだ。

湾の向こうに何かの建物が見える。軍隊関係だろう？

この土地で何をするつもりだろうかな？湖を作るつもりが無さそうなので、やっぱり埋め立て地にするのだろう。
這裡好像填地。我不知道金門政府打算怎麼做，可是可能要做一個湖像西部的慈湖那樣子。

This area on the way out appears to be another bay that was cut off from the sea.  (If you look at the picture below, the left side is the sea, and the right side is some really soggy land.)  It doesn't look like they plan to make a lake here like they did with Cihu on the west side of the island, but I'm not sure what they're doing with the land.

埠頭か？洪水にやられた地下鉄の駅？

ここにもトーカチが有った。
There was a fort converted to a tourist spot here as well.
馬山也有堡壘。現在變成一個瞭望台了。

海に出ている陸地は目的地の馬山岬だ。
From on top of the former fort, you can see the Mashan Cape nicely.  (It's the piece of land sticking out in the photo below.)

上面的照片是馬山海角。

トーカチは観光化されている。上には昔、金門に派遣された兵士の話が書いてある。

馬山の軍部のシンボル

後もうちょっと馬山の岬に着く。左折するところにこのスーパーマンっぽいシーサーが有った。
This is the mark one of the island's local military units.

這個風獅好像超人！
I thought Super Man Wind Lion was adorable.

そして馬山岬に着いた。今日はスタートが遅くて、岬に出れなかった。（開いている時間帯はなんと朝６時から（なんで！？）午後５時までに成っている。）下の写真に見えるところに出てみて、写真の右側に有る島を見ていた。（「后嶼」と言う。）

我們島了馬山！這天，我們出門出得很晚，所以來不及進馬山瞭望台去。我們去上面得照片的那邊，看了一看右邊的小島。
We had a really late start this day and got to Mashan after the lookout point was closed to tourists.  We walked out to the end of the cape in the photos above and below to look at this little island just offshore, Houyu.

向こうの后嶼と言う島も基地の一部に成っている。この岬は観光地にもされているが、基地でもある。午後５時過ぎたら、ゲートを閉めるのは銃を持っている兵士達だ！そして、この島にも兵士が住んでいるみたいだ。なぜかと言うと、、、
When we got closer to the island, we noticed this little shed and some electric lines going out to Houyu.  The island is used as part of a military base.
那個小島是基地的一部分。你看得到有電線連到那裡。

ここは中国から一番近いところに成っているのだ。黒い線の向こうに有る小さな島までは２キロも無い。（角嶼と言う島）下の写真に海の向こうに見えるのはその島だ。

I snapped a picture of the map I had so that you could see what the big deal about Mashan's location is. We're on the northern tip of Quemoy (the big island at the bottom of the map) just below that big black line that goes through the water.  (For reference, the line is merely a representation of a border.  I saw no evidence of an actual big, black line in the sea.)  If you look about Quemoy, above the black line, you can see there's a tiny island (called Jiaoyu).  That island is PRC (RED CHINA COMMIES) territory.  I think it's a just a base and no one lives on it, but still, it's less than 2 km away, which is pretty wild when you think about the fact that the PRC and the ROC were at war for a couple decades. In the photo below, the island on the horizon is Jiaoyu.

這些照片是馬山的那邊。看看上面的地圖。馬山也是金門最北的地方，也是離中國最近的地方。在地圖上的“角嶼”，它離馬山也沒有兩個公里。下面的照片，你看得到角嶼。很近！

でも危機感は無くて、こっちのビーチも結構綺麗だ。

前はこれを使って、后嶼と本土を繋がっている船をケーブルで引っ張ったかな？
So that shed from before, it seems to have an engine in it.  It appears to no longer be in use, though I could be wrong, and even if I knew, I would have to kill you if I told you.  (Top secret military super secrets)

あっちこっちにこう言うセメントに入っているガラス瓶が有った。これらも侵入する敵を苦しませる道具に成っている。
No, the above photo is not trash.  There were lots of these all over the rocks here, all very obviously old and worn down.  They're clumps of cement with broken glass bottles sticking up out of them.  They were left on the shoreline in order to slow down an invading army.  (The PRC apparently didn't issue its soldier shoes back in the day?)
海邊有很多這樣的瓶子。以前為了防敵人進來，放在海邊。

后嶼までの電線が見える。生活感がする。
Houyu
這是“后嶼”。好像軍人工作（住？）在這裡。

向こうは馬山岬の北端だ。今日は出れなかったけど。

And below, a very clear photo of the PRC.  I don't think this photo even quite does the situation justice.  While they would have been no more than a tiny speck, I'm pretty sure I could have seen someone with my naked eye if they had walked out onto the beach on the island.  It's really close.

中国だ！
そして、待っている間に、兵士達が后嶼から降りて来て、船に乗った。だんだん俺達が立っている本土の方に進んで来たけど、めっちゃ遅かった。最初は何をやっているのかが分からなかった。アヒルボートみたいな感じで足で漕いでいるかなと思ったけど、近くに成ったら、海に有るロープを引っ張って船を動かしていると分かった。キツそう。

我們在海邊的時候看到了在后嶼的軍人到在海上的船來，坐船。我們以為軍人踏著腳踏。可是他們來越來越近了，才看到了他們把一條繩拉著，來了。應該很辛苦！
While we were standing around gawking at OMG COMMUNIST CHINA JUST OFF OUR FREEDOM-LOVING SHORES, a group of soldiers came down from Houyu and got into a boat.  At first we couldn't see clearly what they were doing, so I thought they were pedaling with their feet like in one of those swan boats that you can sometimes rent at touristy places.  However, as they got closer we realized it was a lot more hardcore.  There's a rope that goes from the mainland, so to speak, out to Houyu and which is tied at both ends.  The soldiers were puling on that rope to pull themselves across to the opposite shore.

頑張れ！
下の写真にそのロープが見える。
You can see below the rope I'm talking about.
他們用的繩是下面的。

兵士をずっと待ったけど、途中で止まってしまった。最初は休んでいるかと思ったけど、ずっと止まったっきりだった。やっと、向こうの馬山岬の方から別の兵士二人が来た。その二人が俺達が立っているところに着いたら、船に乗っている兵士はやっと再び動き出した。待っていたみたいだ。そして、海岸に着いたら、来たばかりの兵士を乗せて、島に戻った。新しく来た二人は全然ロープ引っ張ったりしなかったので、多分位地が高いやつじゃないかと思った。
Right about halfway across, they stopped.  At first we thought they were just resting, but they just stayed there and stayed there.  Finally, from behind us a couple of other soldiers came along.  When they got to the shore we were standing on, the guys in the boat started pulling themselves slowly over again.  They picked up the two guys who had shown up and then started lugging themselves back over to the island.  The two new guys made no effort to help, so I can only assume they must have been higher ranked guys.  I don't know a lot about militaries, but I've heard stories of moving rocks from one creek to another by hand from guys who were drafted in Vietnam, so as far as I can tell, 90% of soldiering is "toughing it out" because some other guy with more stripes on his shoulder told you to.
軍人在后嶼跟本土當間停船，很久在那裡等了。我們不知道為甚麼他們不動，所以猜他們只要休息。後來，兩個別的軍人到我們的那裡來，然後在船上的軍人看到那兩個，再開始拉繩。原來他們等了那兩個軍人！來的兩個軍人也搭船子以後，船就回后嶼去了。來得兩個人沒幫拉繩，所以看起來他們的順位比別的軍人高。

帰りで、めっちゃスーパーマンが有った。
On our way home, we saw this Superman-Wind Lion as well.  How cute!
回家了，也看到這個超人風獅。