Field trip to Bukit Timah Nature Reserve
Went for a field trip to BTNR last friday and it was nice and tiring at the same time. Why? Due to our time efficient TA :P
TA (teacher assistant) : ” Let’s go for a brisk walk and overtake the other groups in order to save time.”
Me: “Brisk walk.” *gahness*
And walk briskly we did. Up and down the hilly slopes, stairs,bridges with an occasional “When do you think this will finish aa?”
Anyway, the point of us being there is to see the conditions of the different type of forests (secondary, primary). As we walked from the open area to the primary (most pristine) forest, we could actually feel the temperature around us dropping. It was like blazing hot to natural air-condition coolness.
If I could choose one thing to remember from that trip (erm, of course i have to remember a lot more:P …), it would be that selective logging is not selective at all. The “selection” comes from choosing trees more than a certain diameter in length and then logging them down. However, this would mean that these trees would fall on other trees and thus cause them to be unintentionally logged as well. So, the point being? ? ? —There is no easy solution to everything—
Pictures from my fellow LSM3251 friend :)
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Ahhh! What a beautiful rainbow :) Got this out of the monthly (or is it weekly?) newsletter that I receive from National Geographic.Colour contrast well seen here..notice the light and dark regions below and above the rainbow? This phenomenon is caused by the refraction and reflection of light through water droplets. (learnt that in a physics module) Cool eh?
