回到大自然的感觉真好！
It felt great to be back in the embrace of mother nature! This is especially so after 2 months of thesis writing and examinations!
My friends and I visited Pulau Ubin for a cycling and sightseeing trip on Tuesday. There was a morning shower but the weather was great as we reached Ubin. It was nice to see the familiar faces of the NParks rangers and the people there.
We cycled to Chek Jawa as one of our objectives was to visit Chek Jawa at low tide!
Chek Jawa
Chek Jawa is so beautiful, especially during low tide with little puddles of water in the midst of the land and the reflection of the sky in the water. Also not forgetting the biodiversity that we can see during low tide. I was lucky, I have been to Chek Jawa a number of times because of fieldwork and the scenery never fails to energise me to work hard for the remaining journey! I have sighted a variety of animals at Chek Jawa from the number of trips, such as the oriental pied hornbills, a family of red jungle fowls, different bird species, mudskippers, malayan monitor lizards, horseshoe crabs, variety of crab species e.g. the fiddler crabs etc! Do you know that even the civets visit Chek Jawa? The presence of their poop on the boardwalk was the evidence!
Fiddler crab Uca sp.
We then headed back for lunch before setting off for Jalan Jelutong! We stopped by Pekan Quarry for sightseeing and then continued with our cycling. We decided to visit Ubin Quarry.
Ubin Quarry
It was my first time there and the scenery was breathtaking! Everything (living or non-living) seems to fall in place so nicely! Then something caught my eye…
Civet poop at the edge of the cliff!
A closer look…
Civet poop - fishtail palm and probably fig
It was a nice find! I could almost imagine the civet defecating at that particular spot! We then continued our journey to Jalan Wat Siam before heading back to the jetty.
Why should we conserve our natural heritage? We conserve our natural heritage for many reasons, for its ecological, socio-cultural and economic values. But I was thinking, if only we could just conserve our natural heritage because of its natural existence, because we appreciate its beauty and just want to be in the embrace of mother nature…
Visit Pulau Ubin if you can!
(Please check out the Kids’ Musang Watch organised by Cicada Tree Eco-Place in this blog post too!)
