The Mangrove Information Center in Kuta Bali-part III

The boardwalk which runs through the mangroves is impressive and probably took a lot of hard work to build. I was almost immediately walking through stretches of water and avenues of mangroves. With the decking and the occasion viewing tower the whole place felt like a Florida correctional facility. At one rest stop I sat and sipped from my water while a group of workers strolled up and said hello. They said they were harvesting coconuts. Too be honest I don't know what they were doing but they had fishing rods so I guess they were having some fun on their off time. They told me the fish caught in the mangroves were about 15 cm and 'enak' delicious.

The thick parts of the forest block the wind and I really felt the power of the tropical sun, beating down on the hardwood decking and on me. Thankfully I was wrapped up like a benching so didn't get burned. The 2 walks around the property advertised in the brochure are 1 hour and 1.5 hours. The routes overlap and there are walkways off of the latter. I took a stroll to where the mangrove actually becomes open water. Mangroves are supposed to help stop the force of a tsunami which is something to consider. Back in 1993 I did a 10 day jungle trek on Siberut in Sumatra. Thick interior jungle and coastal mangroves and when the 2004 tsunami hit I was worried that some of the small villages might have been wiped out. With that amount of mangrove though they probably were not even aware of a tsunami.