Chicken Soup for the Seoul: Deokjeokdo

So, this weekend I went to Deokjeokdo, an island off the west coast of Korea, with a bunch of people as a going-away party for a coworker of mine and his wife. The weather was supposed to be terrible but ended up being quite nice, so that was lucky and a pleasant surprise.

We brought enough stuff to stay for a month it would seem:

The ferry ride there was a bit chilly...

Once there, the people from the pension we were staying at came to pick us up in their vans. It was quite the cozy ride.

This is about half of the group enjoying day one in front of our tent community.

Jason (the host of the party) in charge of the grill.

Part of the crowd around the fire on night one.

Barbeque!

More campfire.

The next day we had lovely weather so we spent the day lounging on the beach (don't worry mom, I wore sunscreen....but I got burnt anyway).

I clearly don't belong on beaches.

More beach chilling.

The tide was out, so a few of us walked the maybe half mile out to the sea. It was sandy and not muddy at least, though.

Then we climbed the mountain up to sea this abandoned Korean War bunker and I pretended to do something adventurous. This photo isn't particularly convincing...

The view from up the mountain was lovely.

The view from our tents was lovely as well actually.

That night our fire burned the craziest colors. It was really cool but slightly disconcerting.

I almost stepped on this beautiful moth in front of our pension. It was like the size of my fist.

Proof that I had a tent--and I even assembled it myself. And slept without a nightlight!

Here is the tent community being disassembled. Note that almost everyone has the same $20 Tesco tent that would have been miserable had there actually been inclement weather. There were actually quite a few us who camped...I think maybe 3 or 4 other tents had already been taken down by the time I remembered to take this photograph.