April 2, 2007
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Naksan, Gangwon Province, is a resort city on the East Sea. This past weekend the teachers of the SDA Language Institute gathered together at the Freya Condominiums, near Pine Beach, for their biannual meeting. The first two pictures were taken from the balcony of my room at the Freya.
from Naksan looking west - March 31, 2007
That is snow on the ridge.
from Naksan, looking north-west
Waverunner - Pine Beach, Naksan, ROK - March 2007
self-portrait - Naksan, ROK - March 2007
The day after this picture was taken, there was yellow dust in the air, which makes the background in the following pictures look foggy or misty. Yellow dust is sand particles from the Gobi Desert that is carried along the air current or jet stream into Korea, Russia, Japan and as far west as San Francisco. This year will be bad for yellow dust. People with lung problems are encouraged to stay inside, for it is a health hazard. Others wear surgical type masks with charcoal filters.
Riding with a group of missionary-teachers, we went to a town called Sokcho. It is a famous city in Korea, and was featured in a television program called Autumn in My Heart (Gaeul Donghwa).
We stopped at a fishing market, where I took the following pictures of seagulls and fishing boats.
The next two were at a different location in Sokcho.
Anchorage - Sokcho, RoK, April, 2007
One more self-portrait, taken April 2007
self-portrait - Sokcho, ROK, April 2007
all images were taken with a Canon PowerShot A-620 on a two-gig SD card
Comments (5)
Nice set of pics. The one of snow on the ridge is very mysterious and evocative. I like the self-portraits too!
The fishing boats are interesting. The people must be quite prosperous: they are very nice boats. What is their catch? The boats look like they could fish quite far from shore for a day or two at a time, but are probably back same day. I was wondering what their gears were. Seine nets? Longlines?. Take more fishing boat pics pls.
Also I have a thing about foreign supermarkets and foods, so if you ever find yourself with your camera in a supermarket and its neither embarrassing nor culturally taboo, pls take pics.
The cloudy mountains is a picture straight out of a fantasy, I swear. So beautiful.
Gorgeous place! The seagulls look familiar, I think the middle one was here last week...LOL
I have a 'thing' for images of fishing boats, I don't know what it is. And the ones of the seagulls, what beautiful shots..
were these all in ROK? Even the temple and Buddah?
Thank you for sharing these
Such wonderful pictures! You know, there was a sandstorm a couple of months back here in Texas (around El Paso); it actually reached Dallas! A friend and myself were at a pre-med student conference and we wondered why the sky looked so yellow lol. We later found out about the incident.
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