Jejudo: Part Two

Our tropical vacation continues! The second and third nights were spent in Jungmun, the resort area of Jejudo.
Our hotel in the background... ...with a view of Jungmun beach. After getting settled in our hotel room we walked down the boardwalk to Jungmun beach. The waves here were pretty strong, so no water play for the kiddos. But they had a blast digging in the black tinted sand, the same sand that was almost impossible to get off!

I love to read the signs in Korea. This one was at the beach: (119 vs 911)

When we got up that morning we took a walk down the boardwalk in the opposite direction of the beach, which led us to a great vista.
If you look closely in the pictures above and below, you can see a cave. It's a good sized cave and we wanted to walk over to it, but the path was very rocky and not suitable for children or those backpacking children! This cave is called Haesikgul Cave and the area is often used for TV commercials.

This was the path down to the seashore. The cliffs on the left are "hexagonal rock columns". They were created by the rapid cooling and contraction lava as it went into the sea. Here's a better view:
The water was beautiful as well! The black rocks are called Hyeonmuam stones.

After this we drove to try to take a boat tour around the little rock islands, which are more like like huge boulders tossed out in the water in some old giants random stone skipping game. (Since this is a volcanic island that giant was probably a volcano.) But the boat tour was full, thankfully, because later we did take a submarine tour and I almost got sick on the 5 minute boat ride to the sub boarding dock! So while waiting for the submarine tour to begin, we walked on this trail on one of these large boulders connected to the main island by a large foot bridge designed to look like a sailboat.

on the trail

One of the 'boulder islands'.

gorgeous water!

diver feeding the fish

The submarine tour was a neat experience, though not one I'm likely to repeat. Besides the nausea, it really wasn't that exciting. You go under, a diver swims around for a few minutes and feeds fish, then you look at what is growing on the underwater surface of the rock. They also had a sunken ship set up, though I could barely see it.

After the sub tour, we did the super cheesy tourist thing and went to Pacific Land. They have a dolphin, sea lion, and monkey show, and they were all really fun. Monkeys at a sea show? Yes, monkeys. I don't know why, but who cares? They were so darn cute!