Sunyudo Island

When one needs to escape the hectic and overpopulated Korean life but only has a weekend, what can you do? The answer is take a ferry off the West coast to a nearby island called Sunyudo. I went with some friends a few weeks back just as the weather started to turn a little more springlike. We choose a good weekend as we had sun and warm weather the entire time.

This is Walter, the island greeter on the left. If peeing your pants is cool, you might as well consider him Miles Davis.

Walter was kind enough to lend us some ATV's that he had. Actually, we had to rent them for $20, but not a bad deal!

What did you do now Jamie?!?

Hanging out on the beach and having some drinks.

Football on the beach! It's really hard to turn in the sand.

Jack and I.

Mountains on the far side of the island.

Oh no... a shipwreck. We should check for survivors.

Starting to get dark.. bringing in the firewood.

Sunset behind the mountain.

We need more wood for the fire! This is starting to get heavy...

We have fire! Yes, there is a table in there somewhere. If it's outside, its fair game.

Everyone enjoying the fire.

That fire gets pretty warm.

It was a very fun weekend on the island and only takes about two hours to get to and is almost completely deserted at night. It has been one of the highlights of my time in Korea. Another really cool thing that I saw was in the shallow water at night time. Whenever you would step or make some sort of movement in the water, an organism called plankton would release a tiny bit of light, but there were so many in the water that it was glowing quite brightly. That was one of the coolest things that I have seen. However, it was difficult to take a picture so I can only describe it. You definately have to see it for yourself!

Next: Going to Masan and motorcyclin' weather.

Korean Life Update

Life in Korea count: 9 months 10 days.

It's a boy!

Just kidding mom!....


It has been a long time since I last wrote a blog, so deciding to finally sit down and write this has been difficult to do. As always, I have been working for the weekends here. In recent memory, it feels like I have been out of town more weekends than here in Jeonju, not that I'm complaining!


St. Patrick's day is probably my favourite "holiday" back home. One only needs to do two things on that day: wear green and drink beer. I'm proud to say that I accomplished both those goals this year. It was off to Seoul for some St. Patrick's day fun since it was on a Saturday this year.

Guinness gave us free beer for taking this picture. I think they said it was going to be for some sort of advertisement at a local restaurant. Anything for a free beer...

Jack, myself and Matt. Matty's having a great time says the thumbs up.

A giant can of Guinnness. Gotta have a picture with that! Did I mention Guinness sponsored this party and we drank free beer all afternoon?

Wow. An even BIGGER glass of Guinness. It was used in a parade earlier in the day. It wasn't a bad parade considering it was for St. Patrick's Day and held in Seoul, Korea.

Remember: When in Korea, you must take all pictures with your two fingers as seen here.

Next: The Weekend Island Getaway