Tourists splashing water, littering spark outrage at Taitung’s ‘Sky Mirror’
Tourists splashing water, littering spark outrage at Taitung’s ‘Sky Mirror’
2026-08-19
The "Sky Mirror" on Huayuan Mountain in Taitung’s Taimali is popular with visitors who want to take stunning photos where the image of the sea meeting the sky is reflected in a pool. But to get better pictures, some people have been throwing rocks and trash into the pool for a ripple effect, triggering outrage, especially since it’s a privately owned storage pond that the leaseholder was kind enough to open to the public.
Visitors stand by the edge of a reflecting pool, the ocean beyond perfectly melding into the reflected sky into one continuous expanse of blue. It makes for the perfect social media photo. But recently, these scenes were also caught on camera.
To make ripples on the surface, people were spotted throwing stones into the pool and reaching in to splash the water around. One man even poured water inside and then tossed the plastic bottle on the ground. Video of the bad behavior drew ire online, as people criticized them for lacking respect and questioned who would clean up after them.
Visitor
Touring Taitung
If you leave your trash here, who do you expect to clean up after you?
Visitor
Touring Taitung
Taiwan has so many beautiful places. When people visit, they need to take good care of it so that others can enjoy it, too.
This breathtaking spot up in the mountains of Taitung’s Taimali is actually a privately owned storage pond for agriculture. But people discovered that beyond reflecting the sky, it also lines up perfectly with the blue ocean in the distance. Now dubbed the “Sky Mirror,” it’s attracted many people to come take photos. The leaseholder, a local village warden, opened the site to the public free of charge to promote local produce, but ended up having to pick up trash every day. Even after posting signs and setting out trash cans, some visitors seem not to notice.
Chang Ching-liang
Leaseholder
I spend all day over there picking up trash. People go there to smoke and throw their butts all over the place. It looks like it snowed with the cigarette butts everywhere!
After the spot went viral, the pool has even turned murky due to eutrophication, affecting the fish living inside. At one point the owner even closed it off, but now that it’s open again, some selfish visitors keep making a mess of this beautiful spot that people work so hard to maintain.
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亂丟垃圾惹議! 台東華源天空之鏡遭遊客”潑水丟石"
2026-08-19
台東太麻里華源山上的網紅秘境，天空之鏡，水池邊可以拍出海天一線的美照，吸引遊客拍照打卡，但有人竟然為了照片好看，在水池裡丟石頭、亂丟垃圾，引來罵聲一片，因為這裡是私人的蓄水池，承租者免費對外開放、讓人拍美照，卻遭人破壞，他也很頭大。
民眾站在水池邊，映出美麗倒影，與後面的海融為一體，又與天空連成一片，快門按下就成了漂亮網美照，但日前卻有民眾目擊這一幕。
為了拍出漣漪的效果，不僅往水池裡扔石頭，把手伸進水池裡潑水，男子還往裡面倒水，瓶子又隨手丟地上，目擊民眾把影片PO網，引來網友一陣撻伐，痛批太沒公德心，要是每個人都丟一顆石頭，水池滿了誰要清?
[[其他遊客]]
“你把垃圾丟在這，要叫誰幫你處理”
[[其他遊客]]
“因為台灣就是這麼多漂亮的地方，很多人來就要好好維護，才可以一直讓後續的人，可以一直看下去漂亮的風景”
絕美景點位在台東太麻里山上，是私人的農用蓄水池，但意外發現，不僅能倒映藍天，站在池畔拍照，背景就是蔚藍海洋，被稱作天空之鏡，吸引許多網紅來拍照。承租的村長為了行銷當地農產品，開放免費拍照，但卻天天撿垃圾，擺出告示，也放置垃圾桶，還是有人當作沒看見。
[[承租人 張清良]]
“我整天就在那裏清垃圾，去那邊抽菸的人，抽一抽菸蒂就亂丟，地板好像在下雪這樣，一片白濛濛，都是菸蒂”
知名景點爆紅後，水池還因優養化變濁，影響魚類生存。地主也曾一度封閉，如今再次開放，卻還是有缺德之人，糟蹋這別人辛苦維護的美景。
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