In what turns out to be the third trail in the Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, was a boardwalk which is dubbed the longest in the entire park. The boardwalk traverses through a lot of wetlands and it would be a shame to be disturbing the place in the name of tourism. The compromise would be to build a wooden walkway so that little vegetation is disturbed as much as possible. I believe it is a good solution to just letting visitors trample all over the place as they please.
As we were heading toward one of the rest huts along the boardwalk, I noticed a movement along the wooden rails of the boardwalk. It was something alive and we couldn’t get a good view of what it was. Not wanting to disturb it, we walked very slowly so as not to disturb the creature. It was a squirrel and it was foraging but jumping from tree to tree. It was moving so fast that if we were to disturb it, it would have scampered away so fast that we would not have been able to see it.
We were lucky enough to photograph it at a very close range as it was feeding, almost oblivious to the curious photographers that were observing it. Unfortunately, this was not to last as a rather large and noisy group of visitors came barging in along the boardwalk and scared the squirrel away. At least we managed to take photos of the squirrel before that and we left irritated at the inconsiderate nature of those visitors. Although the boardwalk was built such the humans will not tread on the habitat of the creatures but the noise from visitors also trespasses on the habitat of these creatures, I hope visitors will be more considerate of these things before visiting such places.
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