Okay. finally now a breaktime blogging session. You know when you say that "i'm gonna do this later/tomorrow" yet when that time comes you're still finishing up your work or doing something else, procrastinating what you swore to do just hours ago. Well i gotta kick this habit. This will be a first start. haha!
This Labrador Park trip is part of my Eco n Env module; we're supposed to identify the types of organisms we will find on its rocky shores. The rocky beach has been closed to the public since July 2009, due to its extreme fragility to human disturbance. But I was lucky to revisit my childhood place with this opportunity, and man, the beach is still the same =)
My team did the middle zone of the intertidal area, and this was what we found:
Fauna: Hermit Crabs, snails, shrimp, keelworm
Flora: Caulerpa (sea grapes), Sargassum, Padina (brown algae), Red algae, Brown sponge
And then we moved to the near shore, the upper intertidal zone, and here's what we found sticking to the pillars of the bridge:
Acorn barnacles, Star barnacles, Onches, Periwinkles, Limpet
Well, there might not be lotsa fauna on the sandy beach (apart from the happily hopping sandhoppers and the many seagrasses/algae washed up shore), but there are sure lots of them on the pillar.
onch, a sea slug
Of course there were more organisms discovered (we also did the far shore, or the lower intertidal zone) but i'm lazy to put the collaborated data over here and neither do i want to pile this entry with my report (which i have yet to do! urgh)
some pretty good photos taken by partner:
labrador park sure has fantastic sunsets. I miss that place!!
why is uploading photos to blogger so troublesome...
ah wells.
next up is my pulau ubin trip! Though most of the photos are taken by my lab mates. Gotta make full use of my $500 dollars camera from now onwards...
