西沙永乐群岛行之四:甘泉岛

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<p class="contentText contentSize contentPadding" style="margin-top: 0.25rem; padding-right: 17px; padding-left: 17px; border: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; text-size-adjust: 100%; overflow: visible; letter-spacing: 0.2px; font-size: 0.19rem; line-height: 0.3rem; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"></h3><h1><h5><h3><h1><span class="bjh-p" style="border: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; display: block;"><span class="bjh-strong" style="border: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="font-weight: 700;"> 甘泉岛,</span>这名字早有听闻了,说是茫茫大海中一小岛,岛上竟有淡水井,井水甘甜。</span></span></h1></h3></h5><span class="bjh-p" style="border: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; display: block;"><br></span></h1> <h3><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17.1px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;">岛上的井,文载:1909年,清朝广东水师提督李准巡海时发现此岛中部低地有淡水井两口,泉水甘甜可饮用,即称:"已得淡水,食之甚甘,掘地不过丈余耳,余尝之,果甚甘美,即以名甘泉岛,勒石坚桅,挂旗为纪念焉",甘泉岛因此得名。</span><br></h3> <h3>守岛人还从这井里汲水。</h3> <h1></h1><h5></h5><h3></h3><h1><span class="bjh-p" style="outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px; display: block;"> 甘泉岛上有中国最南端的文物保护单位"西沙甘泉岛唐宋遗址",唐宋年代,就有我们中国先人就在这里生活了,这片辽阔海疆,是我们的祖宗海。</span></h1><h3></h3><h3></h3><h1><span class="bjh-p" style="outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px; display: block;"> 甘泉岛为西沙群岛中,露出海面时间最晚的岛屿。</span></h1> <h3>甘泉岛面积较大,有四、五百亩,岛上没有居民点,植被保存非常完好。</h3> <h3>又看到橙花破布木了,永乐群岛此树较为少见。</h3> <h3>迎客的银毛树。</h3> <h3>还是银毛树。</h3> <h3>谁把这棵番石榴砍了,树头有这么大小的番石榴,得长好些年头了,可惜。</h3> <h3>这个岛上生长着非常多的苦郎树,同在永乐环礁上,其它几个岛礁却很少见,Why?</h3> <h3>岛中部完好的植被,大多是较低矮的灌丛。</h3> <h3>木秀于林,风未必能毁之,因为我叫海岸桐。</h3> <h3>还是马缨丹,万绿丛中一点彩。</h3> <h3>何人何时带进来的银边龙舌兰?已融入原生植被,长得有形有款。</h3> <h3>羊角冲天笑,我们西沙的羊角树,草海桐。</h3> <h3>酸豆树,长这么大有点年头了。</h3> <h3>环保组的队员取了水样,又催着我们往下一个岛礁了,我还来不及喝上一口甘泉。走吧,银屿见。</h3>