Road Trip To Deok Jeok Island

This past weekend Saejin, Heidi, Rachel Lynn and I met for our last collective road trip in Korea. We've been to most of the major holidays areas and have hit Suncheon more times than necessary but as a foursome we've never made it out to any islands. This is why we choose Deok Jeok Island as our destination.
Our ferry was supposed to leave at 9:30 am but because of a thick cloud of fog hanging off the coast we had to wait for the sun to do it's magic and burn it off. Saejin and Rachel Lynn worked their magic at getting beer out of a can while we waited. I had the decency to wait until on the boat and an hour later before I started in on the beer.
A fisherman holding his fish is a perfect way to greet tourists to the island as proof of a humble people but to Satanist it could be seen another way.
More fisherman tools to lure a landlocked tourist's attention.
The building in the back is the pension we stayed in. Our room was in the middle of the second floor (details I know you're dying to know)
The view from the pension. One of the buildings is a training centre that companies will rent out for bonding weekends (read booze fest, where managers hit on their underlings.)
The gang as we walk to the beach. The sun finally won its battle versus the evil clouds that mark this time of year.
Rice paddy and farmers house (another distractions for a city slicker to absorb.)
Posing in the "forest" that separates the town and the beach. Try to guess what's in the cooler.
When we first arrived there were maybe 10 other people on the beach. Koreans are creatures of habit and will go swimming in July and August, seeing as it was the 30th of June we were officially a day too early but there wasn't a single complaint from us.

Enjoying the sun and surf.
The lifeguard post was being painted when we arrived, more evidence we were a week too soon for the price gouging and crowds.

More posing and showing off our sunburns. A few days later I was in pain and itched like crazy from the sunburn but today have a decent tan (no pain no gain).
Final shot of the weekend is of the dinner that we ploughed though almost as quickly as the beer.