The kids had the day off of school so I wanted to go explore; they didn't want to. Different day, same problem. We settled on dinosaur footprints. These large guys were at the exit so we jumped out and snapped some pics. This is a therizinosaurus.
His large sickle type claw is getting Daisy.
This guy is an alamosaurus. Its remains are actually found in southern North America and is the largest dinosaur found in North America.
When we chose this place I thought we were going to go on a hike to look at prints, kinda like at Glen Rose, TX. Instead when I pulled into the parking lot you had to pay right there to go into the Goseong Dinosaur Museum. So we left the dogs in the car and did the museum.
This view is upon entering the museum.
It was the best kind of museum as far as the kids were concerned. There were a few titles in English but the rest was in Korean, so I did not spend more time reading than they wanted me to.
They were OK to spend time in the cool picture room, though.
This was a cool entry way.
Outside there was a large garden area with lots of playground equipment.
She almost got me!
There were a lot of beautiful flowers that I photographed whilst the kids were playing.
It was a warm afternoon and we needed a drink so we wandered up to the little cafe. The sign said you could buy water, 물, which we tried to do, but the lady gave us a cup of ice water instead. Then I felt obligated to purchase something. When we drove into the parking lot earlier in the day and had to pay an entry fee but my credit card would not work for some odd reason so I used the last of my cash to get in. I had to dig in the bottom of my coin purse to find enough change to buy a drink. After I found a million coins to pay we got what we thought was lemonade. It was actually a tart lemon seltzer. I told the kids to smile and drink it like you like it so the lady would not feel bad. As we were drinking our not-so-tasty lemon drink we at least had a nice view.
After our drink we exited the museum gardens and went down to the water. The views were stunning.
The cliff does not look high until you see how little Zekers looks.
The water has created little shallow caves.
This little place is called Sangjogam, which means 'rocks look like table legs.' There are some footprints and ripple marks on the floor of the caves.
This is one of the holes created by a footprint. Water stays in the hole and there are little sea creatures living in it.
This little area is actually a circle. Right behind Daisy is the opening where I took one of the pictures above.
Daisy said this was like a scene from The Little Mermaid.
On the other side of those amazing caves was a beach area with dinosaur footprints. It's called Deongmyeong Village Dinosaur Fossils and Bird Tracks. Here is some info about it:
We did not feel like we saw 2,000 dinosaur tracks, but maybe if we walked farther along the shoreline we would have seen more.
It's hard to put this in words, but as we exited the museum grounds, we curved around along the shore. It seemed like it should lead back to the area we came from; it was not taking us back. There was a building so I thought we could cut through it to get back to the parking lot. After we were in and walking through the halls, someone came rushing out and said, "onyo" (remember, that means no). We roughly communicated with our translation apps and they told us to follow this road up. We did. It was a super steep road and we kept walking and walking. I wasn't so sure it would dump us back to the parking lot. There was a lot of whining involved, but eventually we made it back. Yay!
The kids wanted to check out the roller slide before we left.
Lijee and Chuey needed a rest when we got home.
[November 1]
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