Incidentally Labrador Park was declared a nature reserve. Seen from above, it is immediately obvious that it has a lot of forest cover, a fact that the National Park made use of. Here you can go for some walks gently up the hill which overlooks the sea. It is also in this walk that you can see most of the historical features of the Labrador Nature Reserve. The entrance of the forest area is already full of character with the path carved from the hill and the resulting wall layered with red bricks.
The path goes through some dense forest cover, which was a welcome relief since it was already quite hot outside. The paved path is well marked with signs to the points of interest. One of this points is a gun emplacement. Due to the strategic position of Labrador Park, the hill provides an excellent place to mount guns to protect the island from invaders coming from the sea. Thus these gun emplacements were built. The guns of course are long gone but the emplacements are still there. Back then during World War II the forest wasn’t so thick yet and it is possible to see the sea from here.
The guns are mounted on top of these emplacements and behind them are places where the gunners would be hiding. Standing here you can see how important these emplacements are and how dangerous they could be. Naturally these will be the first things the enemy would target. There were actually several of these emplacements but the invading Japanese have systematically bombed out the others. A lot of history is here, and it makes me shudder just thinking about how it was back then. I believe because of these, Labrador Park should not just be a nature reserve but something more.
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