Sungei Buloh Wetlabd Reserve Reflection

Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve is a great place for learning environment. I have learnt many new things about what I do not know. The trip from our school to Sungei Buloh sure took a long time. I was a little restless after sitting inside the bus for so long. However, that did not change my eagerness to enter the Sungei Buloh. This was the very first time I went there.

When I set foot into the entrance, I felt extremely excited. When we were seperated into groups(mine was A3), we met our guide and we greeted her. She brought us in and to a shelter. She told us that we are going to learn about the Mangrove. From then, I paid attention to what she said, some of what she said I had already know while some was still new to me. She also told us that Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve is 130-hectar(measurement for land)! It was so huge!

When we started our journey through the mangrove, i first learnt about the plant adaptations in the mangrove. There was a leaf we tasted from a tree. The leaves were salty! They were actually from the salt water that come from high tide. Each trees have different types of roots.

I also remember a process called vivipary, where seeds germinate and develop into seedlings while the fruits are still attached to the parent plant.The seedlings will then fall and lodge themselves into the mud to grow. Seedlings that fall into the water will be dispersed by the tides. Examples that I have seen learnt are the Rhizophora and Bruguiera.

Next, we walked through the bridge which has rivers beneath us. It was so worrying that I would drop my pen or something valuable. From the bridges, we saw a lot of mudskippers in the river. When we made a shadow in the river, the mudskippers or other fishes will swim quickly away that the water splashes. After that, we took a short break, we had drank some water and had a bite before returning to our journey.

Our guide led us to the next part of the journey which we saw many animals I never got to see. I saw squirrels, horseshoe crabs, snakes and a monkey! The monkey was actually doing its small business at a shelter we were supposed to stop and recap what we have done. Someone made a funny face and the monkey seems to have felt threatened and tried to attack us. Luckily, we managed to escape its attack when it decided to climb across the bridge instead. It was scary.

When we set down at the shelter, someone suddenly started screaming, trying to tell me that there was an insect crawling up my shoes and onto my pants. I quickly stood up and the parent volunteer helped me to swipe of the insect. I was frightened by it and decided to shift to another place to sit.

Finally, it was time to go back to school, I slept in the bus as I was exhausted from the walk. Unfortunately, I did not rest well. The person sitting behind me kept on kicking the chair and standing up. That person even pulled my hair.(accidentally)

Nonetheless, it was a great learning experience and I hope to go there again next time.