With walls and bricks breaking into pieces, shabby neighborhood and small fishing boats in the wetland, this village is no longer seen as a fishery village that relied on fishing for living. However, as most people believed, it would be a pity if the village surrounded by peculiar geological environment, was to be berried among rubbish. It seems if the village do not transform to create new business opportunities, it cannot survive. By looking at newly developed sight scene platform, the government must also realize the same thing. After the platform is completed, with the Thirteen-Row Museum to be opened in the neighborhood soon, here sure will be the best history lecture room for geography.
At the year of 1883, Taipei County government had formally demarcated the left hand side bank of the Danshuei River mouth as natural reserves, which is a part of Bali Shiang. The whole area stems from the north of the intercept of Taipei city and the Bali Shiang to the south of highway; and its west border is along. Wa-a-wei River up to the Dam Dakanjiau. Until the year of 1994, according to the law of Cultural Asset Protection, the Agricultural Committee of Executive Yuan legally announced the whole area as Wa-a-wei Natural Reserves, in order to protect the special forests and the animals living within the area. The surface area of the mangrove in the area is approximately 8.9 hectares, which is also one of three main mangrove area of Danshuei River.
In the early period, the Wa-a-wei was called as "Wan-a-wei" (in Taiwanese), that is because the Danshuei River flows to Guadau and then go around Mt Guanyin by pass the foot of the mountain then forms a big river gulf, and when the river pass through Bali the river has comes to its end and flow into the sea; that’s why it is called Wantsaiwei (gulf’s tail). Since the Wa-a-wei is allocated at Danshuei River mouth and its swirling geographical shape, which can resist sea waves, and because the precipitation of soil, it gradually formed a sandbank the sandbank is the result of the soil carried down by Danshuei River bit by bit, little by little through the years. Moreover, by the effect of different sea tides, it creates a unique wetland. Starting from the intersection of the Wa-a-wei River and the sea, the river starts to follow the current of Danshuei River and extend into the sea for several hundred meters.
The small boats and rifts scatter among the mangrove, waiting for next high tide. Between the high and low tides, here does not only left with fishers’ living evidences, but it is also a best place for ecological lecture room. Here can also clearly observe the complete living process of the Kadelia candel (a kind of plant). Other than that, plants that can holds sand such as Hibiscus tiliaceus L. and Ipomoea pes-caprae, shows the borderline between the land and the ocean in the earl period. In the natural reserves area, a variety of non organic salt and organic products that were collected from upper stream river and from the ocean. In addition to that, the area piled up a huge amount of organic nutrition offends by the death leaves and sticks of mangrove. Therefore, it provides rich food resources and a good habitat for fishes and shells; it shows a fairly special natural environment.
If you like to visit the Wa-a-wei Natural Reserves, the best way to et there is to drive from Taipei City though Gandau Bridge, then turn right, using No.15 highway. When you go through a ferry pier and a petrol station, turn right to follow the Jungshan Road. Then for the rest of the journey, just follow the Wa-a-wei signs, and you will get to the river mouth. However, if you cannot see the Wa-a-wei signs, after you seeing the sign of Thirteen-Row Museum, take a right turn and you can see the Wa-a-wei sign. Follow the sign’s direction, and then you will be able to get to the reserves area. If you would like take bus, then you can take the No.704 bus at the Bei Men or Yuenhuan .
 The small boats and rifts scatter among the mangrove |  |  sight scene platform |
 Wa-a-wei dock | |  To overlook Taipei city |