West Coast Park - Why I am not bored

Can Nature be boring? It never can, that is the answer. Nature in West Coast Park is benevolent and every visit, even if it is on a daily basis is blessed with lush greenery, birds and creatures that spring from branch to branch (squirrels), that lurk amongst the ferns (changeable lizards), that sit pretty on twigs and blades of leaves (dragonflies), that occasionally bask in the warm sun on the boardwalk (snakes and skinks), that soar with the wind currents (Brahimy Kites), that come here for their Winter sojourn (bee-eaters, egrets and herons), that are common in our ponds (Waterhens) and those that are graceful in the water and slow on land (monitor lizards) and I cannot count anymore. Of course you do not see all these creatures at the same time all in a morning. Sometimes you see nothing. The park is still and nothing stirs. You hear nothing and wonder what happened to the birds and the bees and the wasps and the colourful dragonflies. Some days, you get rewarded for your patience and get to say hello to a few of Nature's children. Trees and flowers are never the same day to day, month to month and year to year. When you can take note of the order of flowering of the trees - Saracca, Pride of India, Flame of the Forest, the Pulai - then you have learned to mark your time in a more pleasurable way than looking at the calendar. There is definitely never a boring moment spent appreciating nature.