just 20 minutes off the eastern coast of jeju island is another delightful one called udo island. it’s about 18km in circumference. mike and i packed up our tent from our first night it jeju and took a taxi to the port.
we had briefly comtemplated what we should do with our bags while visiting the island. this was actually something we dealt with the most of the trip. when you are traveling to a new part of the island everyday, w/o reservations and w/o a car, one needs to become a little more creative with their bags. we just figured we’d take a gamble and hope that there was someplace to store it at the port. interestingly enough, our super nice taxi driver was more concerned than we were:
taxi guy: so where are you guys going to up your stuff while you sightsee?
us: oh. we’re just hoping there are lockers or something at the ferry terminal
taxi guy: not there aren’t. but you should just ask the ticketing people if they can hold it for you in their office while you go to the island and pick it up afterwards.
us: ok thanks!
(short pause)
taxi driver: what are you doing afterwards?
us: we’re going to ilchubang (sunrise crater on the way to ferry) and then going to the south of the island on the bus.
taxi driver: hmmm…. why don’t i drop it off at this really good restaurant i know right in front of ilchubang where they can keep it for you. then i’ll drop you off at the ferry terminal. after you see the island you can go to the restaurant to eat, see ilchuban, grab your stuff and go south.
us: um. wow. ok. thanks!
(this is all in korean)
after dropping our stuff off at this restaurant, our wonderful taxi driver took us to the ferry terminal. 
the small indoor portion of the boat was interesting. (short side note: in korea, traditionally much of the activity happens on the floor. you eat at a table on the floor, you sleep on large thick mats on the floor, you hang out there. usually this all happens in one room without much furniture. this has a lot to do with why koreans do not where shoes in the house. you want to keep it as clean as possible when you are constantly sitting on the floor) so the inside: its basically a large sitting area on the ground with small bordered off pathways to take and leave your shoes in. everyone was comfortable resting and waiting to get to udo island. 
after we arrived, we noticed there were some stands where you could rent a scooter, golf cart, bicycle or atv. the bikes were the most affordable but our limited time + ultra hot humid weather convinced us to go with an atv. we had driven one when we were in santorini, greece two years ago and felt pretty comfortable on them. so we were off on a road that travels around the edges of the island and udo was really quite beautiful:
we then started to see some random things from the road. random mermaid: 
next to these swings
and up the road.. someone building an ark?! 
we parked our atv near the ark and walked down to the water on a path and found a small family outift serving live sora and munoh (octopus). the sora was kept in a bucket
the live octopus was kept in nature fridge
yum!
udo was one of the highlights of jeju. if we had known we could camp here and realized its awesomeness before, we probably would have camped here for a night. 
afterwards, we ate at that restaurant, climbed ilchuban and then picked up our luggage and headed to the bus stop. thanks mr taxi driver!
