Last weekend we went to the beach! It was about a two-hour bus ride to the west coast, so we decided to make a whole weekend of it.
Gotta love the cheesy florescent palm trees in front of our hotel.
After finding a place to stay, we hit the beach. It's been so hot here (over 30 degrees and humid), that it was great to just lie on a beach and swim in the ocean (or Yellow Sea to be exact).
By the time we left the beach that afternoon, the tide came in so much we had almost run out of beach to lie on!
That evening, the tide was on its way out, and the beach became really wide. There was such a huge difference between high and low tide.
The nearby streets were lined with seafood restaurants, and they all had fish tanks just outside on the sidewalk that were full of various shellfish, squid, large fish and some even had small sharks.
We came back to the beach later to watch the sunrise and saw this plane flying very low.
After dark, the parties started, and everybody was setting off fireworks. There were numerous vendors around selling fireworks.
The next day was rather cloudy, so we just walked around and explored the beach more. We concluded that each of these groups of umbrellas amongst the rocks in this picture is actually a little restaurant! I'm pretty sure the menu was limited to shellfish. It was quite interesting!
We also saw a horse on the beach.
This beach is famous for its mud. They even have a Mud Festival every summer! Just off the beach, there is a mud spa, and they sell some mud products as well. Of course I wanted to try it, so Jordan bought me a mud pack! I haven't tried it yet.
2 comments:
It looks like a lovely beach. The tide reminds me of Shediac Beach, although I am sure the water is much warmer.
That first fireworks picture looks like a bunch of lightsabers fighting each other in midair.
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