trip to tanjung piai and kukup (part 1)

To be honest, i wasn't looking forward for this trip at first since i'm very short of money plus, i have some other stuff to be worried about. But, thinking about my unit members, what they might say if i didn't go, i decided that i just attend this trip. I was thinking that they might say that I am the one responsible to increase the pay for the trip since lesser people joined in. 2 other people have officially didn't join and if i did the same thing, that wouldn't be too pleasing. So, i woke up last thursday morning prepared to take off from UTM bus stop.



Without high expectation and not really that eager to go, I was quite worried since we have crit on the trip so, i was quite buggled up thinking that i might be in deep shit since i haven't prepared anything.. ANYTHING! for crit.. hush! slap in the face!.. Talking to the others about the crit, I realise that they didn't have anything to crit either.. *feeling quite relieve..(fuhhhh..)





The bus arrived at 9 something (should be at 8) since the bus driver was busy taking some japanese tourist around UTM at the same scheduled time. What a bad start.. the bus driver was rude, unfriendly at all.. geez. so, the plan was that we will go to pulau kukup.. then, the bus will take us to tanjung piai which is 10 km away from kukup town. However, the snobbish driver refuse to wait and drive us there since we will spend quite some time in pulau kukup.. huh! so, the bus went back to UTM and we straight away got to the information centre (pissed off with the bus driver's shit). Nevermind, thats his problem. we're here to enjoy.. not to worry our own head of his immaturity. So, immediately we were given explaination about the 2nd largest no human settlement wetland island in the world. interesting enough, the area is home to some flora and fauna and also a resting place for birds.



After the briefing, we were taken to a sorta hidden jetty. From there we were taken on a boat cruise for approximately 15 minutes to kukup island. on our way there, we saw tonnes of fishing cages where the industry of fish agriculture is a big thing here since it is the largest sea fish exporter to singapore. As everyone was slowly taken over by the sea breeze and the natural mangrove greenary, we arrived at the forest reserve on a shakey wooden deck. After gathering everyone in the main building on the island, we venture into the lush green mangrove forest (of course on a wooden deck pathway ready by the management). The water was tide when we arrived so, the swamp forest floor was all covered with salt water. The wood pathway was 600 metres long about 1 metre above ground.

..later sambungla.. have some work to be done..

photos: credits to depulson