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[thecount]

So, I took an express bus from Onyang to Incheon Airport and on the way there (this is after passing Seoul / The han river), we are nearing Incheon.

Outside of Incheon, I saw what appeared to be a vast expanse of...perhaps dry lakebed? Here and there, you could see lush, craggy "islands" jutting up from the flat, sandy ground. It extended for miles and, in the morning fog, looked hauntingly gorgeous.

Unlike the red/orange clay or the other dirt you find in Korea around public works projects, the sand here was pale grey. It appeard to be a foggy death valley.

I plan to come back to Korea with my camera and some free time and take some absolutely stunning photos of that area, but I need to know what it is called, first.

Is it a lake? If so, is it only dry this time of year?
Does anyone know a place where there are pictures of it, so I can confirm? Anyone know the coords or name?

Thanks,

-The Count

[ttompatz]

Low tide and those were the mud flats. They are under water at high tide. They dry out twice a day and flood twice a day.

The level of flooding depends on how high the tides are on any given day.

Highest (and lowest) tides occur at the full and new moons.

You see them all up and down the west coast. People go clam digging on the mud flats near Jebu-do (just south of Incheon along the coast) at low tides.

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[thecount]

2 years in Korea and I never knew anything about that. Dear god, my ignorance is astonishing.

Thanks a ton!