Last week, Busan received
rain Monday through Friday. With impecable timing, the clouds have
opened to let rays of sunshine flood the skies for the weekend.
Perhaps this is the proverbial "calm before the storm"
which is now a category 4 projected to make landfall late Monday or
early Tuesday. So with the "no time like the present"
mindset (which I normally don't subscribe to, I'm much more of the
"why do today what can be put off until tomorrow" thanks to
my mother) I set out to photograph what putting a few miles under my
feet looks like in Busan.
A chili plant and its ripe, picked peppers set out to dry
Busan towards the East
This is the Nakdong River, South Korea's longest, entering the ocean to the left. These three identical towers are one's view from the river looking towards the South. The riverbank and bay are lined with these quad-tipped pillars cast from concrete. I've seen these exact things used before in Corsica, a tiny island off the coast of France and Italy in the Mediterranean Sea. Funny how effective discoveries are shared by humanity. Here, just like in Corsica, fishermen scatter themselves throughout the interlocking pillars in hopes of providing a meal for their families.
The Gwangan Bridge connects Busan from East to West where the Nakdong river meets the East Sea (do NOT refer to it as the Sea of Japan here, you will surely start a heated cultural debate). This is a two-story bridge with the top story going Westbound and the bottom story heading Eastbound.
Row after row of rather dilapidated apartment buildings
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