Unlike all of our other hikes, it
was the cloudy and rainy-looking sky we do not mind having this morning. Normally,
we don’t like the rain to spoil our hike, but today, it is a special day. The
reason is that we wanted for sure for the weather to produce this natural
beauty below, the Sungai Long Sea of Cloud (over the Hulu Langat Forest Reserve).
This could be the nearest sea of cloud to Kuala Lumpur.
After taking in the beautiful view
at the lookout point, we proceeded to hike to the Turtle Rock. But first stop
was on a muddy mirror lake. The lake used to be greenish. However, with
development currently taking on in the Sungai Long hills, it is not a surprise
to find the lake turned into this color. In fact, we didn’t call this event in
our poster “Sungai Long Turtle Rock – Before It’s Gone” for
nothing.
Thereafter, members proceeded to
climb up the terraced cliff face which is a huge road-cut. The way up was
waking by the edge of terraced cliff face. Low secondary bushy growth all over,
but this also gives us an opportunity to look far as our view was not blocked
by any trees.
The remaining walk from the above
peak view point was into a bushy secondary forest. Eventually, we reached the
Turtle Rock as pictured in our group photo above. The 360 degree view at the
site of the rock was interesting: circling, we could see far distance to the earlier lookout point where we took the sea of cloud photo, the Sungai Long
Quarry, Bandar Mahkota Cheras and the Air Selangor water treatment plant, the
quarry hill of the (now-blocked) famous BMC Blue Lake, Hulu Langat Forest
Reserve plain/valley, and its hills rising high (and looks inviting the Pathfinders to
explore this latter area in the future).
Members took a lot of nice photographs;
please take a look at the gallery below (apologize to the photographers as I did not do justice to their photos which were clear and crisp; but as a result of amateurish website editing and in the interest of keeping file size low, the photo quality came down).
