So in 2005 I had a Moses themed birthday party. It was awesome and a total surprise. I recall trying to part the waters of my beer. Now it appears that things have come full circle.
This is the Jindo Miracle Sea Parting Festival. In English it's also called the Moses Miracle Festival. 3 times a year the tide gets really low. So low that a weird sand bar/road appears between Jindo and another nearby island. So for a brief period of time one can walk between the two islands.
Joel, Jeff and I caught an early bus down to the island. It was a 5 hour ride but it was also the only route we were navigate by ourselves. So basically, once the road starts opening up you have to book it across the water. As you can see I bought some sweet boots because I thought there was going to be a lot of mud, muck and grossness. Joel decided to go barefoot for most of the way. As it turns out the road is not made of soft muck. it's almost completely composed of asorted crushed bivalve shells. Joel was not pleased. As you can see he did eventually decide to put the Shanbu's back on. So, anyway, we were trying to run to get to the other island when we were stopped by the police and forced to turn around. Boo! We had almost made it...
In this picture Joel has decided that he has enough small cuts on his feet and that he should put his shoes back on.
One of the funny things about this is that there were a bunch of tourists trying to get across the land bridge. BUT there were even more people digging up various clams and mussels. they were also collecting large kelp plants. This woman is very excited because she just found a baby octopus.
All along the road there were these fluorescent blue and orange starfish. I kept picking them up and flinging them back into the water because I wasn't sure how long the tide was going to stay out. It made think of that story I learned at CCD about the guy on the beach who was flinging starfish back into the sea. When asked why he was doing such a pointless task he said something like it makes a difference to that one. I think that's about the closest I've been to church in a decade.
This is the Jindo Miracle Sea Parting Festival. In English it's also called the Moses Miracle Festival. 3 times a year the tide gets really low. So low that a weird sand bar/road appears between Jindo and another nearby island. So for a brief period of time one can walk between the two islands.
Joel, Jeff and I caught an early bus down to the island. It was a 5 hour ride but it was also the only route we were navigate by ourselves. So basically, once the road starts opening up you have to book it across the water. As you can see I bought some sweet boots because I thought there was going to be a lot of mud, muck and grossness. Joel decided to go barefoot for most of the way. As it turns out the road is not made of soft muck. it's almost completely composed of asorted crushed bivalve shells. Joel was not pleased. As you can see he did eventually decide to put the Shanbu's back on. So, anyway, we were trying to run to get to the other island when we were stopped by the police and forced to turn around. Boo! We had almost made it...
In this picture Joel has decided that he has enough small cuts on his feet and that he should put his shoes back on.
One of the funny things about this is that there were a bunch of tourists trying to get across the land bridge. BUT there were even more people digging up various clams and mussels. they were also collecting large kelp plants. This woman is very excited because she just found a baby octopus.
All along the road there were these fluorescent blue and orange starfish. I kept picking them up and flinging them back into the water because I wasn't sure how long the tide was going to stay out. It made think of that story I learned at CCD about the guy on the beach who was flinging starfish back into the sea. When asked why he was doing such a pointless task he said something like it makes a difference to that one. I think that's about the closest I've been to church in a decade.
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