Eurwangi Beach

We decided to go to the beach on Tuesday. We picked the closest one to Seoul and it was also recommended as a good family beach since the water wasn't very deep. We had to take the train to the airport and then a bus to the beach. Then we realized the error of our ways. When you take two adults who have lived their entire lives in either North Dakota or Minnesota, quite possibly as far from the ocean as you can get in the U.S., they don't even consider the tide. So, we got to the beach and saw that the tide was far from the beach... as in about 400 yards from the beach. The good news was that I was able to ask someone on the beach how long it would take for the water to come back. Thumbs up for Mom!! So, we had to walk through about 400 yards of mud... and some pretty good shell hunting... to get to the water. There lay the second disappointment. The water was so muddy.  The boys were not to be swayed and I decided that we did not fly to the other side of the world, take a train, a bus, and wander through 400 yards of mud to not let them go in the West Sea.

The boys beginning the trek to the water.

And, continuing the trek. We are much closer and I am also carrying a gallon sized baggie full of various shells.

Charles and Min in the water. Charles got to the water and turned to me and said, 'Can we go in this water?'

My little engineer found some sand and got to work. Charles absolutely LOVES building in the sand.

Min loved being crashed by the waves.

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Charles and part of his sand creation. This part he named, 'The Big Pond.'



The part of his river that empties into the pond.

So the other benefit of getting to the ocean when the tide was out, is that the boys got to watch it come in. A very cool science lesson.