The Koreana

Wow. I thought rafting was cool. There is a Korean man named "Charles" who sets up trips for foreign teachers. The latest was a trip aboard a boat named the Koreana. This is apparently the biggest sailboat in Korea. When I saw a picture of the boat I had to go. If you read this blog than you already know about my recent obsession with the sea. The kicker is that the boat sailed out to an island with dinosaur footprint fossils.

So Saturday morning at 1:00 am the buses departed. There were 2, one dubbed the party bus and another for people interested in sleep. I'll let you guess which bus I chose. Eventually we reached our first stop, a hillside temple for a view of the sunrise. Since I hadn't slept yet I was not groggy at all. I almost ran up to the top for this beautiful view. Oh yeah, I won. First one there. Booyah!!:



This turtle is at all of the temples.

After the sweet sunrise the buses took us to the Koreana. I had a fear that we would be cruising around in some crappy ferry boat or something but that was definitely not the case.



I was sooooo chuffed. We got to cruise around on the open sea in a huge sailboat in some of the best weather I've experienced since I've been here. Cool sea breeze with the sun up above. All the while we were surrounded by green islands. It was really cool.



The views were great all around:



Sunset from the crow's nest was amazing. There are plenty of pictures on my picasaweb:

http://picasaweb.google.com/Tony.MurRock/Saaaaaaaaaaailing



Went for a late night swim too. Ended up swimming in iridescent phytoplankton like in the movie "The Beach". It's awesome, every time you move the water starts glowing around you. After that I had to pee in the pitch black boat bathroom. Some of my pee was glowing. Probably the highlight of my life. I wish I had a picture of that haha.