Wishing Tower in Samcheok
Today we woke up to a beautiful day (finally). It is Father’s Day and I was hoping to find something special to do for Brad but there are no shops to buy nice food and no nice restaurants to go to. The only thing I could think of was snorkelling. Brad has been dying to snorkel because the coastline is so beautiful but the weather hasn’t been good until today. 
So we headed to a 
small beach and Brad managed to do some snorkelling. Brandon slept on a beach towel under the umbrella and I watched the nearby military tower’s binoculars/telescope swivelling around checking out the area. 
I’m sure whoever mans that post must have fun watching all the people on the beach especially during peak season because I noticed the telescope was often pointed to the beach. The beach was quiet and there was only another small group of people there and they had a 15 month old baby girl with them. They came over to talk to us and find out where we were from and the little girl was quite taken with Bradley. 
In fact, the parents left her standing with us while they went further down the beach to play in amongst some rocks and seaweed. The little girl just stared at us and seemed content too just be around us.
We then headed to Haeshindang Park and the Fishing Village Folk Museum. Haeshindang Park is a park dedicated to penis sculptures – yes, you read that right.
The 
story goes that there was a beautiful 
girl who 
used to collect 
seaweed. One day a fisherman, who had a pact to marry her, took her to a rock where there was lots of seaweed and said he’d return for her and marry her. Unfortunately he couldn’t return to fetch her due to a terrible storm. The girl was knocked off the rock and drowned. After her death the fishing catches in the village diminished. The people thought it must be due to the girl’s bitter soul and they decided to offer carved wooden phallics to appease her virginal soul. After this the fishing village once again enjoyed bountiful fishing. To this day wooden phallics are still offered at Haeshindang to ensure good catch. The park is very amusing with all kinds of weird wooden phallics. 
The Chinese Zodiac is even presented with each sign carved inside a big penis. The park is in a lovely setting with beautiful views of the shoreline.
It was very hot and we didn’t want Brandon to overheat so we had to keep cooling him off with a damp cloth. We then strolled around the fishing museum which also included more historical information on phallic symbols and sex sculptures, these were very amusing. 
We then got on the road again to find accommodation for tonight; we carried on down the coast going in and out of many small villages and harbours. There are many natural coves which have been made into small harbours and fishing villages have developed around these. We are now in a little area called Hosan and we’ve booked into a lovely hotel that overlooks the East Sea called the Hosan Beach Hotel. It seems like we are the only people in the hotel, I have to wonder how these places stay alive.
Today we woke up to a beautiful day (finally). It is Father’s Day and I was hoping to find something special to do for Brad but there are no shops to buy nice food and no nice restaurants to go to. The only thing I could think of was snorkelling. Brad has been dying to snorkel because the coastline is so beautiful but the weather hasn’t been good until today. 
So we headed to a 
small beach and Brad managed to do some snorkelling. Brandon slept on a beach towel under the umbrella and I watched the nearby military tower’s binoculars/telescope swivelling around checking out the area. 
I’m sure whoever mans that post must have fun watching all the people on the beach especially during peak season because I noticed the telescope was often pointed to the beach. The beach was quiet and there was only another small group of people there and they had a 15 month old baby girl with them. They came over to talk to us and find out where we were from and the little girl was quite taken with Bradley. 
In fact, the parents left her standing with us while they went further down the beach to play in amongst some rocks and seaweed. The little girl just stared at us and seemed content too just be around us.
We then headed to Haeshindang Park and the Fishing Village Folk Museum. Haeshindang Park is a park dedicated to penis sculptures – yes, you read that right.
The 
story goes that there was a beautiful 
girl who 
used to collect 
seaweed. One day a fisherman, who had a pact to marry her, took her to a rock where there was lots of seaweed and said he’d return for her and marry her. Unfortunately he couldn’t return to fetch her due to a terrible storm. The girl was knocked off the rock and drowned. After her death the fishing catches in the village diminished. The people thought it must be due to the girl’s bitter soul and they decided to offer carved wooden phallics to appease her virginal soul. After this the fishing village once again enjoyed bountiful fishing. To this day wooden phallics are still offered at Haeshindang to ensure good catch. The park is very amusing with all kinds of weird wooden phallics. 
The Chinese Zodiac is even presented with each sign carved inside a big penis. The park is in a lovely setting with beautiful views of the shoreline.
It was very hot and we didn’t want Brandon to overheat so we had to keep cooling him off with a damp cloth. We then strolled around the fishing museum which also included more historical information on phallic symbols and sex sculptures, these were very amusing. 
We then got on the road again to find accommodation for tonight; we carried on down the coast going in and out of many small villages and harbours. There are many natural coves which have been made into small harbours and fishing villages have developed around these. We are now in a little area called Hosan and we’ve booked into a lovely hotel that overlooks the East Sea called the Hosan Beach Hotel. It seems like we are the only people in the hotel, I have to wonder how these places stay alive.
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