Teluk Batik.... another page from the past!

One of the things we did during this CNY was to check out some of the places which used to be our haunting places during our youths.

This is Teluk Batik. How it has changed over the years. I've not walked on the beach for a couple of years. This was a place for camps and barbecues during schooldays.

It was also a place where we turned into beach bums during the weekends in those days. We'd cycle or ride our bikes there. Didn't even need to change our clothes as the ride back would dry them! LOL! Cos it was a long ride home!

I was impressed by what I saw. Even saw an artist at work. Wah! Art has a place here! 8) The facilities are nice. Upkeep isn't too bad. The place is quite clean..... the city council is doing its job! Thought it was quite comparable to East Coast Park in Singapore we visited end of last year.

I think they have buggy rides as we saw this and some horses grazing not too far away. Quite quaint. Only snag is our people here are litterbugs. They leave their rubbish everywhere. Saw them every where. Maybe we should make sure heavy fines are imposed on such people.

The whole beach was full of people; camping, swimming, just walking around. But the beach seems 'smaller' now; partly eaten up by all the walkways that they've built, to give it a nicer feel. And the sand seems not so clean like before... guess it's because of the constant stream of beach goers it has to accommodate these days.

Those are helium filled balloons at RM5 each.... cheaper than what we get in Alor Star by RM2.

It's beautiful what they've done to this place but I think it was more beautiful back then when the facilities were not so canggih. The beauty now is kinda artificial. The burgeoning population is definitely putting a strain on the beach for sure! The number of places we can go remain the same but there're more people now.