We went down to Gangeolgot this past weekend. Its a nice, breezy little spot on the south end of the city. Sunday was very sunny, but out on the coast it was just a bit too cold and windy for comfort. While we liked the view and crashing of the surf, we didn’t stay long and headed back to the warm car.

I try to strike a pose, too, but I come off looking a bit too “cool.”  My dog isn’t all as adoring as this picture might lead you to believe. I have her ball in my pocket and she’s just a tad OCD about playing with it.

Along the coast there are plenty of boardwalk vendors hawking their wares. Several were trying to sell their impressive strings of kites. They really were beautiful, but their usefulness back in the city would be limited with all the wires strung everywhere.

I went down on Saturday while MyeongHee was working and did a little exploring along the river. The city has made vast improvements in the parks over the past year or so and it was worth the extra effort to view it. I climbed one of the hills along the river where they’d built a small picnic pagoda overlooking the valley. Beautiful scenery, really. I snapped several photos to capture the wide expanse and had trouble putting anything of that size on this blog. Luckily, I have another website I author on, and I have more freedom to experiment. I put together some simple javascript code to show the panoramas of the river. I also, for the benefit of the other foreigners here in Ulsan, put some additional things in it that didn’t necessarily make sense to write here. A link to it never hurts, though. Check out my panoramic vistas on UlsanOnline.com (make sure you have javascript enabled to see this)