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Captain Marlow
Joined: 23 Apr 2008
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 Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:01 pm Post subject: river & lake swimming in/near daegu |
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| does anyone know of any? i'm not interested in swimming pools or the beach (spent the summer in busan and looking for something different)... thanks for any suggestions! |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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| I live near Daegu and I can't think of anywhere outdoors where anyone would want to swim. |
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Straphanger
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
Location: Chilgok, Korea
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| Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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| I also live near Daegu. Confine your swimming to mountain springs reserved for that purpose, and even then, carry immodium. |
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dean_burrito
Joined: 12 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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I'm with the OP. I'd love to go to a Sexy Swimmin' Hole,Whiskey Rocknroll Partay.
How about you list your simming hole anywhere if ya know one. |
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Straphanger
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
Location: Chilgok, Korea
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| Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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| dean_burrito wrote: |
I'm with the OP. I'd love to go to a Sexy Swimmin' Hole,Whiskey Rocknroll Partay.
How about you list your simming hole anywhere if ya know one. |
Got one near 경주, but I've never seen it in real life. Perhaps my buddy will take me down there if I don't show up to his place all shagged out and unable to work next time.
Hmmm, come to think of it, he's got three weeks vaca coming up, I could easily spend a week there without him even knowing about it. woohoo! |
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Captain Marlow
Joined: 23 Apr 2008
Location: darkness
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| Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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not in the city (as it would be full of tampons and soju bottles), but i was thinking there must be something in the mountains or a little beyond... a few of my friends and i wanna motorbike there and end up floating on our backs (a feat that awes every korean that has witnessed me doing it:)...
the closest place a kfriend has suggested is unmun dam in chungju... might give it a go, but it's 130kms away, which is around 2 hours or so on bike, and maybe a bit longer because that's by carriageway, and we'd be taking the back roads... |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Captain Marlow wrote: |
not in the city (as it would be full of tampons and soju bottles), but i was thinking there must be something in the mountains or a little beyond... a few of my friends and i wanna motorbike there and end up floating on our backs (a feat that awes every korean that has witnessed me doing it:)...
the closest place a kfriend has suggested is unmun dam in chungju... might give it a go, but it's 130kms away, which is around 2 hours or so on bike, and maybe a bit longer because that's by carriageway, and we'd be taking the back roads... |
There's the River Nakdong about an hour south. It might have a lot of silt during the wet season, however. |
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Captain Marlow
Joined: 23 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:56 pm Post subject: |
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| another friend has just suggested Bongmu-Dong... has anyone been there? i google imaged it, but i couldn't find a single pic of a person IN the water... |
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oldfatfarang
Joined: 19 May 2005
Location: On the road to somewhere.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
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There's the River Nakdong about an hour south. It might have a lot of silt during the wet season, however. |
I fish the Nakdong River most nights - and it's nowhere I would swim. I feel really grimy just wet wading while I'm fishing. There's signs up everywhere (in K) telling everyone not to swim because of pollution - although I see K anglers killing Nakdong fish to eat.
When the kids see my Nakdong fish photos in my office - they all say: "Teachaaaaa - Nakdong Gang Dirdy, very dirdy." |
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Katchafire
Joined: 31 Mar 2006
Location: Non curo. Si metrum non habet, non est poema
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| Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:26 pm Post subject: Re: river & lake swimming in/near daegu |
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| Captain Marlow wrote: |
| does anyone know of any? i'm not interested in swimming pools or the beach (spent the summer in busan and looking for something different)... thanks for any suggestions! |
Jinyang Lake looks really nice - although it seems you'd have to share the lake with a few otters if you did venture into it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinyang_Lake
(It's also not exactly 'near' Daegu either). |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:55 pm Post subject: |
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| oldfatfarang wrote: |
| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
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There's the River Nakdong about an hour south. It might have a lot of silt during the wet season, however. |
I fish the Nakdong River most nights - and it's nowhere I would swim. I feel really grimy just wet wading while I'm fishing. There's signs up everywhere (in K) telling everyone not to swim because of pollution - although I see K anglers killing Nakdong fish to eat.
When the kids see my Nakdong fish photos in my office - they all say: "Teachaaaaa - Nakdong Gang Dirdy, very dirdy." |
I've only seen some windsurfers on it while driving by, so I figured perhaps it wasn't so bad. I guess that windsurfers are rather limited in where they can go, too. |
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NightSky
Joined: 19 Apr 2005
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http://www.worldisround.com/articles/170/photo7.html
yep, people do go swimming at unmun dam, but it is usually packed. there are picnic tables bordering the river and people usually set up their tents side to side. the river water seems pretty murky. it's okay for boating, not sure I would actually want to swim in it.
if you look at the pic, the area to which I'm referring is beyond the dam. it's a nice enough place but you won't have any privacy. |
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moosehead
Joined: 05 May 2007
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I would imagine immersing one's self into any body of water in K would dissolve your skin from the bones from all the toxins.
heck, the bus I ride to work every day goes over a river that runs as black as the Houston Ship Channel - that is very black indeed.  |
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