Going Clamming on Three-Wheelers

The three-wheelers are lined up in a row, like soldiers. Rather than plying the lanes of farming communities, these “tourist clamming trucks” take people out on trips to experience the ocean ecology. Changhua County’s Wanggong has been promoting them with great success in recent years.

Visitors sit in the back of these retrofitted light trucks, which drive out to sea over the vast tidal flats as the tide recedes. Then the visitors pile out of the trucks and begin to “dig for clams and wash their pants.” If they’re lucky, they come away with several dozen wild clams to cook back home. If they don’t find any, they have fun all the same, enjoying the beautiful vistas of clam fields and then driving back through the shallow water wet and satisfied.