Jumunjin

Yesterday was a National holiday here to mark the 1919 Independence Movement. It was a beautiful sunny day and not as cold as it has been recently. It would have been a shame to have spent it cleaning the house and washing clothes. So me and Tania decided to go to Jumunjin, a fishing port about 23 km north of Gangneung. We got a bus from the intercity terminal and off we went. The journey took about half an hour and although we didn't take a coastal road it was still great to see the mountains in the distance, still topped with snow.

There are really only two things to do at Juminjin, apparently, go to the beach or go to the fish market. We didn't make it to the beach.

Fish markets in Korea are awesome- more marine wildlife than you would ever see in an Aquarium and really close up.

I guess that it was kind of weird for the locals to see a couple of foreigners running around taking photos of their prospective dinners and a few of the stall holders seemed a bit put out that we weren't interested in buying crabs the size of trucks or squids the size of Moby Dick.

But even the Koreans took photos of the fishing boats.

The market is a lively colourful place with some scary looking fish. We did see a lot of octopus too and even one that had escaped from the bucket and was legging it back to the ocean.

We walked along the sea wall and sat by the red lighthouse for a while watching the fisherman.

Then we walked further up the coast but failed to find anything looking like a beach so stopped for coffee. As the sun started go down (gloriously lighting up the sky above the mountains) it started to get cold and it was time to get back to Gangneung and meet Renee for dak galbi and a movie. We watched 'White Chicks' in the DVD bang, I wouldn't recommend it!