The destination’s speciality is crab – snow crab to be more precise, which are in season from November to May. Quite why they are called snow crab I don’t know. Turns out it’s because their meat turns a bright, snowy white when cooked. The name also reflects their habitat in freexing cold northern oceans. Are they lost here? The reason for the detail is we had a lot of it tonight. A lot.
Anyway, back to my birdsong rabbit hole. I started wondering if migratory birds are multilingual? They are! Song is learnt and they can learn to understand other species too. I’ll need to revise my opinion of pigeons – who fly from lofts in places with distinct accents, eg. from Glasgow to deepest Yorkshire.
I digress. Today was a hilly day – luckily there were lots of visual distractions. Orchards, acers, resevoirs with solar panels on them. South Korea is expanding its “floativoltaic” projects to save on land use. The turtle statue was a good stop – representing longevity, protection and historical navel strength. We’ve yet to see a live one – they are native to South Korea.
Tomorrow a shorter flat day working off the crab.
Travelling reflections 