Sembulan River Park

I paid a photographic visit to the recently completed Sembulan River Park. The lack of traffic on a sunday morning made it an easy visit. During working hours, this whole place is a nightmare; traffic jams and the totally inadequate number of parking spaces.

I did a posting on 24 October 2010 when they had just started the beautification project. This was the view this morning from the end nearest to the Sembulan Kampung (approximately the same view point as the second photo in that Oct 2010 posting).

 

This end had the public toilet and the Police Pondok.

The boardwalk wound round the backs of the buildings in the Karamunsing warehouses district ...

... some portions were without railings (for boat rides in the future?) ...

... and metal posts to demarcate the roads ...

... the Sembulan River is actually joined by the Karamunsing River at The Stage.

The boardwalk is very wide and a lot of seating available.

ALong the Karamunsing River; Ming Garden Hotel in the distance, Sabah Oriental Hotel (previously Beverly Hotel), the Indonesian Consulate, and Maybank out of the picture on the right.

The view towards Karamunsing ...

... and the park administrative office ...

... at the entrance to the park ...

... where there was an "info display board" with the history and other stuff about the area.

This is a modern park with CCTV (24 hours!!! don't play play) and anti-littering (RM500!) ...

... warning signs (no swimming, no skateboarding, no littering and no sitting on the railings) ...

... but if you did dive into the river (totally not recommended ... see photo much further below) ...

... direction signs ...

... yet another warning sign (it almost sounded like its too dangerous to visit this place) ...

 ... the "You Are Here!" map ...

... not forgetting the very nice police pondok.

There was a boy fishing; how long ago did we last do that?

Those fishermen selling their catch on the river banks (see the Oct 2010 posting) had built their new "Fish Markets" on the river!

Not just for their human customers!

I wondered what stuff he sold???

Off to a Secret Rendezvous perhaps ...

... ugh! motor stalled; restarted ...

... and on his way.

I wondered what was the story here?

A close look at the rubbish in the river and the "smell" told all that its best NOT to go into the river. I remembered reading that our Mayor said something about the many old cesspits upstreams not functioning, so raw sewage ended up in these rivers. Repairs to be made when funds available in the future.

Anyway, the one thing I was very happy to see were all the old trees retained.