Oct. 8 evening

After getting home from the trip with Hanna on Wed. afternoon, I was home for a few hours and then went fishing with Michael and Daniel. I thought we were going to go fishing from a dock or river bank or something. Instead we went out on a small boat to a larger raft anchored way out in the harbour and fished in the dark for a long silver fish called a hairtail fish.  They are long, very thin, and look like very smooth shiny tinfoil on the outside. They also have a long translucent opalescent dorsal fin that undulates like a wave. They are quite pretty when they are alive - not so much when they are dead though. 

The fishing was pretty slow, but it was interesting to be out on the water in the night. The lights of the city lined the shore and glittered on the water and a coloured dancing fountain from Mokpo's Peace plaza sprayed sparks in the distance. It was windy and quite chilly, but Elizabeth packed us a late evening snack of tea and goodies and Ramon noodles that we cooked with Michael's camping stove. Other people brought whole meals and sat on a raised platform to eat together. The fishing lure was a small blinking light and some very small glow sticks attached to the line, with a long leader and then hooks baited with small pieces of fish. Sometimes it can be very fast Michael said, but we had four poles going between us and only caught one fish in the four hours we were there. So - interesting, but not a lot of fish.  We went home at 11:00 and were in bed by midnight or so. Michael went to work at 6:30 like usual, and Daniel went sleepily off to school at 8:00. Elizabeth and I will go to an old style village today to see how people used to live in Korea..