Beginner-friendly Intertidal Walk

For my Act For Nature, I chose method A where my friends and I will be going on a walk at Changi Beach to learn more about the organisms present on the shore. The plan however, was unsuccessful due to the heavy rain that morning, making it inconvenient for us to go and also due to the unpredictable weather, we decided to just call off the plan despite our excitement. I don’t know whether this qualifies but I guess this is my attempt at it, we however plan to reschedule and go to Changi Beach together for a long overdue catch up and of course to find some cool creatures lurking that we have never know it was there.

I chose to go to Changi Beach and the intertidal walk because out of the 3 walks that i went, the Intertidal Survey with NParks was one of the most memorable and eye opening experience in my life. (I don’t want to babble but it was just amazing.) It taught me a lot about what was present at our shore and their importance. I never knew that that there were volunteers going to survey the beaches either.

Initially, before the Intertidal Survey, when I told my friends of the activity I will be participating in, they were unamused and find the activity rather boring. This made me realise that, many people are more interested in the cute and the furry that our lesser know sea-borne friends have been neglected. After experiencing the survey,, I found that this was a great way to get people interested in our sea-life. Moreover, with more interest, this will make more people realise the importance of biodiversity of our shore and sea, pushing for more causes to protect our seas and shores. Since i do not have any photos, they only way to convey my friend’s excitement will be our chat group i guess. HAHA.

I got the idea for the ‘Shore-hopping Handbook’ from the infomation booklet that we had during the intertidal survey where many of us are very interested in stealing it if we could and if our moral compels us. All of the photos and information in my ‘makeshift’ handbook is from http://www.wildsingapore.com/wildfacts/index.html, which is just an amazing information bank for all of us.

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