Yennting

Been there at Labrador Nature Reserve makes me realized that geography are everywhere around us. It allows us to understand more than what we had learnt from the textbooks.

The first location that we went was the Aerial Tower. This is where we remember what we had learnt months ago about the natural vegetation, particularly the tropical rainforest. As we journeyed down the staircase from the Aerial Tower to the Jetty, we saw the five distinct layers of the rainforest, and of course, not forgetting about the leathery drip-tip leaves (as what we had learnt from). Not only that, we saw how soil conservation was done to prevent soil erosion. I was really amazed by how the soil conversation is done as I used to think that preventing soil erosion is just to plant more trees to hold on to the soil.

The second location was the jetty and the rocky beach where we do our coastal studies. The first sight of the rocky beach makes me feel rather disgusted. "It was so dirty and unhygienic. Why do we have to go down there?" However, after seeing all the coastal features down there, my views for the beach changed. It was pretty useful after all. It showed us what a wave-cut platform really looks like, how a notch really looks like. We were told there that the cliff will collapse overtime as the waves continue to erode it. However, the cliff is not only being eroded by the waves. It was being weathered biologically by the plants that grew on the top of it too. So, we know that geography links everything together.

The third location we went was the Promenade. We could see the actual seawalls as well as the backwash and swash. Feeling the sea breeze blowing on you on such a hot and humid day was really relaxing.

Lastly at the Dragon Teeth Gate, we saw a cliff reddish-brown in color, obviously experiencing oxidation. Although it was already experiencing chemical weathering, biological weathering by the roots of the plants on top of the cliff is growing into the lines of weakness present as well.

I believe that more of these fieldtrips will benefit us even more in learning the chapters, or even recalling the features during tests and examinations.