Rainbow Coast Road

 Only a couple miles from our house lies the Rainbow Coast Road. One morning a few friends and a few dogs enjoyed the scenery along the road.

Naturally, there are several photo ops along the path.

Who did it better, the girls or the dogs?

Don't answer that! It's hard to compete when the doggies are so cute.

This is a place to walk out to observe the tidal flats. The tide goes in and out of the bay. I used to think high tide and low tide was like clockwork. Well, actually it is, just not how I thought. My erroneous land-locked thinking was that the tide was always high at the same time every day, and always low at the same time every day. 

After living here I began to observe differently. Some mornings when I walked to the bay, the tide would be in. Then the next morning when I would walk there, the tide would be out. So I looked it up: 'Because the Earth rotates through two tidal bulges every lunar day, coastal areas experience two high and two low tides every 24 hours and 50 minutes. High tides occur 12 hours and 25 minutes apart. It takes six hours and 12.5 minutes for the water at the shore to go from high to low, or from low to high.' Now you know.

We made it to the rainbow part of the Rainbow Coast Road.

That first step is a doozy.

If you have read any other posts in the past 2 years, you will remember references to Yi Sun-shin and his turtle boats. He's sort of like our equivalent of George Washington leading the revolutionary army. The battle that took place here at Sacheon included geobok ships, or the famed turtle ships, that sailed from Yeosu (click here to read about our trip Yeosu). This battle was the first one in which the turtle ships participated in actual combat.

[September 27]