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MISSION: BEACH!

For about one month now it has been about 30 degrees everyday, and so Lauren and I both loving the sun, and having not learned our burning lesson from Thailand - have been CRAVING a beach. Now we live on the north eastern part of Korea, and well it is common knowledge that the good beaches are south east... pretty much the opposite of where we are located. However with high hopes we thought we'd give beach hunting a chance. I talked to my co teacher and she hesitantly suggested a beach about an hour from our house.
So Saturday morning we awake to the sun shinning and packed up our stuff, and headed to the bus stop! As the story goes, the bus was suppose ot take us directly to this beach. We were stoked! We rode on this little bus for about an hour, in and out of placces.. perhaps buses shoudl not go... small and country places, perhaps there isn't a road places... and then TADA-- we landed at the last stop Jebudo Island!
We jumped off the bus and chose a direction and began to walk. As we got closer to the "water" we realized that there WASN'T ANY WATER! The irony almost killed me. We stood there in awe of the long streches of sea bottom.....on forever a desert of muck and seashells.

Trying to find the good in this situation we sta ourselves down, on our private beach..imagine no one wantingt o share in this beach experience, and we sun bathed ourselves. After a while the stillness of this beach became curious to us both..it was strange to not hear the waves... I got up and started to walk around to see what i coudl find.... maybe the water was hiding?

Nope! No water. So we lovingly named this place "No water beach." I returned to see Lauren jumping up and down on her dry beach hollaring BABY KANGAROO and throwing seashells into the bushes. I was sure that the desolation of the beach had gotten to her!

As you can see she was rather convinced by the baby Kangaroo, and when I asked her what she was really doing - she persisted BABY KANGROO!

hahah sure enough...a creature was lurking in the woods: Very small and in the middle of the pic!Lauren being sad because thats what you do at a beach with no water when you baby kangaroo escapes.
This is a lovely photo of me embracing the waterless and now kangarooless beach.
We the noticed that people we driving across a small road built over the empty waterless seafloor. We hopped a bus and went to check it out. Turns out we drove to Jebudo Island..however.. there wasn't any water surrounding this island... so perhaps it wasn't an island.