Beting Bronok - changing to a seagrassy shore?
Our annual survey to this reefy northern flat is bitter-sweet. Like visiting our favourite grandma and watching her painfully, slowly fade away. I feel privileged to have seen her at her best.
The patch rich with delicate colourful animals is still there, but the patch seems smaller with every annual visit. Seagrasses are even more abundant as much of the shore has become very soft and silty. Most of the hard corals I saw were pale and some were bleaching.
The richest reefy corner of this shore looks sad today. Is it changing into a more seagrassy than reefy shore?