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Headed down to the Rainbow Warrior for a nice hot shower today – unfortunately it’s departing tomorrow so I’m not sure where my next shower will come from. Things are coming together nicely with our roles in camp becoming more clarified. Tomorrow I’m incredibly lucky to be getting out of here for some of the…

I found a nice little site about Korean food – Korean Food Translated. I might even be able to order myself food in these strange looking restaurants before too long.

The whale museum’s beautiful whaling vessel, just for display. Today it was blaring bad 80’s music – the beginning of their psychological warfare?

The Jangsaengpo Whale Museum’s pretty logo on the side of the museum, staring us down night and day.

Adam, Jim, KFEM folk with some Ulsan IWC officials, following a very interesting meeting

Me ‘flying the flag’ in Ulsan (or at least sticking it in the top of our ‘mast’ at the whale embassy.) Nice to go for a bit of a climb, it’s been a while!

Wow, it seems in Korea, there are no sim cards – phones have them built in – so there’s no prepaid stuff. Apparently mobile to mobile calls here are about $0.03/minute which is pretty damn cheap – pretty onto it tech-wise – all the houses have broadband, and they’re allegedly upgrading to provide 100 megabit…

yea : yesaniyo : nomianhamnida : sorrySillaehamnida : excuse meyongeo haljul aseayo? : do you speak english?gamsa hamnida : thankyouhwa jang sil : toiletannyeong haseyo : helloannyongi kyeseyo : goodbye (to person staying)annyongi kasesyo : goodbye (to person leaving)je ireumeun ….. imnida : my name is …..tangsinui ireumeun mueosimnigga? : what is your name?pangapseumnida :…

4:30 and my watch is over – time to wake up Ben for his watch. It still smells really bad (it’s not me, definitely this ‘industrial armpit’ that is Ulsan) and we’re out of herbal tea so I was forced (by the cold) to drink normal (shitty, lipton) black tea. I hope I can get…

3am – and i’m on watch – as none of our tents are secure and the locals represent most of the 3% of South Korea who eats cetaceans, we don’t feel especially welcome here, so we do watches all through the night like on a ship. It’s cold (though not as cold as last night)…