Trip to Macritchie Resovoir

After school this afternoon, Benjamin, Hurberg, Leon, Nicholas and I went to Macritchie resovoir to investigate ecosystems for our biology assignment.

The slight rain before we left school disrupted our plan, but we decided to take a chance. Hopefully when we reach there, the rain would have stopped.

It did, but luck seemed to be a double-headed snake on this day, and not long after we reached, it started raining cats and dogs, although we did not see any cats and dogs falling into macritchie nature reserve.

We waited till the rain became less violent and set off for the nature trail, which was 11 km long. We had to share my umbrella occasionally. There were monkeys ceremoniously welcoming us when we reached the beginning of the nature trail. I did not dare to venture into nature initially but decided to after a minute as I was worried that the animals might attack us.

The ground was covered in wet, dead leaves and for most of the time, we could not see the concrete. The canopy of trees shielded us from the rain. We met thorned plants, some boring old trees, an egoistic insect who wanted us to have its picture taken and a squirrel, which swiftly disappeared before we could get its picture.

Just then, I heard a rattling sound. I have never heard a snake rattle, so I contemplated whether it was a hiss of the snakes, and this uncertainty made me even more worried. Fortunately no snake appeared.

After walking for less than a kilometre, we decided to turn back as it was getting late.
As we were walking back, it started to rain monkeys and squirrels. Once again, I had an umbrella, so lucky me, unlucky them.

The nature trail was not a bad one; if we had time during the June Holidays, perhaps we should go there again...Physical advantage: You get to hike
Mental advantage: You would PROBABLY learn more about nature.

On the bus I was so tired that someone had to wake me up when I reached the interchange.