A good night’s sleep in a motel near the beach and it was up
to another beautiful day. It looked like
a fine day to just enjoy the walk and not worry about signs. Fortunately, the next couple of legs showed
themselves as pretty much following the coast.
The problems had tended to be when the trail led away from the sea for
any length of time. Then the signage
would leave at least a bit to be desired.
The first leg of this day was quite straightforward. It began with a beach with a fairly calm
sea. And rocks.
Not content with just looking at the rocks just off shore,
they went and built a bridge out to them.
I found a lull in the traffic to take a photo of them. I really don’t understand why it seems that
scenic things can’t be left more or less scenic here. There seems to have to be a way to clutter
these places up with people… and their trash.
Sigh!!!
From the beach, the trail wound over a hill inland just a
bit and past some historical burial mounds.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t learn much about these ones as the signs only
described them as Silla dynasty era burials, which really only means very old
to me. And they were discovered when
they were expanding a nearby road.
At the top of the hill there was a nice look back at the
coast over a nearby town on this gorgeous day.
It was such a nice day for walking.
Because the top of the hill had such a nice view, that meant
it was also a great place for a lighthouse, since it was also visible from far
away. I don’t know why there would be a
statue of a mermaid way up there.
Then it was along more of the beach and coast to another
rock formation that seemed to have some renown.
There were lots of tour buses coming and going, with large groups of
people paddling little kayaks to a rock offshore. And this formation just below another
lighthouse/viewing tower seemed to have some kind of legend to it. I couldn’t find out though because none of
the signs had any English on them.
It was a nice little leg, and quite effortless. It left
plenty of time to do another leg before heading back to Seoul and then home.
No comments:
Post a Comment