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A tame day to do tedious work
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With only Vincent and myself available for the day, we concluded that we should devote ourselves to clearing some of our outstanding chores. We chose to make a circular drive with the car going west from PJ to Klang, then to Kuala Selangor. Returning by the Sungei Buloh way, we would have completed the loop. |
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Our assignment was to take photographs of the various road signs or landmark and use these materials to supplement a map providing directions. I have been driving on these roads for a long time now. So much so that I have depended on the land mark to prompt my "intuition" as to where the car has to be steered. But to take photographs of these prompts? This time around I really have to put the effectiveness of the Malaysian road sign system to the test. The conclusion-it is totally inadequate and gives little help in guiding motorist armed with a map. Continue reading and you will see why! It is quite easy to know that you are traveling on the NKVE and going from KL to Klang.
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Now imagine, the driver is heading for the little town of Meru. After the end of the Highway and this probably what comes next! Standing there as Vincent did, where is the signboard? |
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1st problem- the town Meru is very small. Therefore no road indicator. Instead, the overhead sign shows "Klang Town" or "Port Klang, Bukit Rajah". There is no road sign but take the turn off to the right. You proceed round a bend. Then comes the first Y junction, keep left. Then the second Y junction, keep left again and down a short slope to the traffic lights. From the lights turn right and go 11 kilometers to the next cross road. Where is the sign that tells you that you are on track? None! Enough of this road sign stuff! We headed for the Mangrove Forest. I wanted to show Vincent the different types of trees mainly Bruguiera and Rhizophora that are quite rare in the Nature Park.
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| In this well planned coastal plain from Klang to Kuala Selangor and with an air of confidence, I told Vincent that the road system is arranged in rectangular format. You simply cannot get lost! |  |
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Oh! How I forget that the terrain and the vegetation are identical and misleading, Coconut plantations and Mangrove Forest! And on this fateful morning - Murphy’s Law had taken over as the order of that day and we got lost! A stone throw from the Kapar Power Station and hidden among the Mangrove forest is this convenient hideaway. A 50 meters long stretch of paved road leads you the landing point. There were 7 cars. At the jetty’s car park, we saw 7 cars but not a soul in sight. There were 6-7 boats moored there. |
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This could be the place where the people from town go
out to sea.
Here is a view of the jetty at Sungei Kapar Besar. |
On the muddy banks, we saw a good variety of colorful crabs.
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pictures, we discovered a great numbers of colorful crabs
that we sought for in the Nature Park.
More, they were in various colors of bright red, fluorescence blue, yellow and gray! |
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I set up my stand and waited for the right moment. It didn’t take long either! These creatures here were not disturbed by human presence. Oh! There were plenty to pick and choose. After that encounter, if I need more pictures in future I will surely know where to go. |
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We scouted around the area and eventually found our originally targeted trees. I harvested some R. mucronata fruits for a later photographic session at home. Off we went to join the traffic Jam. We weren’t prepared for that. It was one very long queue after another without us having a clue as to its cause. After more than an hour, we realized that it was the Thaipusiam procession that caused the massive jam. Wisely we decided to call it a day and returned to Petaling Jaya!
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