Had
Chao Mai National Park
It
is under the supervision of Si GAO and Gan Tang, covering the
areas from Pak Meng Beach to Mai Beach. Altogether, there are
9 islands e.g. Mook Island, Meng Island, Kradan Island, Chao
Mai Island and Chuak Island.
Office
of the National Park is located at Chang Lang Beach which is
47 kilometers from downtown and where the tourist service center
as well as the rest area are provided. Additionally, lodging
houses and camping area are rendered to the tourists who want
to stay overnight. Mook Island and Morakot Cave are the most
2 fascinating natural sites in this National Park.
Most
of the islands are tall cliffs where the crevices in the rock
are good places for the swallows to build their nests. Morakot
Cave is tightly hidden is one corner of the island where only
small stern boat can pass through the entrance when the tide
recedes. Otherwise, the tourists may wear life jackets and float
into the cave. Passing through the entrance, there appears the
white sandy beach embraced by the steep cliffs as if it were
the grand hall whose ceiling is the widely open blue sky.
In
travelling Mook Island, the tourists need to take the boats
leaving Kuan Tung Goo Port every noon. Then, tourists can catch
the fishermen's boats at Our kham Village or at Pak Meng Port
taking approximately 40 minutes to the island.
SEA
GRASS
Similar to the grass grown near the sea shore, sea
grass is the higher plant grown over the sea floor, which is
made of fine sand or mud in the brackish or salt water not deeper
than 8 meters. Sea grass ecology is significant to the sea shore
conditions due to its duty of food producer in the food chain.
Other than that, sea grass is the perfect guardian of the infant
marine animals. Accountable for decreasing the violent roller
corroding the sore, the areas where the sea grass is grown have
the tranquil lines of waves and current. Therefore, the sediment
from the shore, which is hazardous to the coral reefs' survival
as well as to the sources of foods for our rear animals-dugongs
and sea turtles, will not be spread over.
The
survey finds that there is the large quantity of sea grass grown
from the coast, Bae NA Mountain, Mook Island, Yong Ling Beach,
Yong Ling Mountain, Yao Island, Libong Island to Baan Pra
Muang.
There are 11 types of sea grass i.e. 'Ya Bai Klom', 4 species
of 'Bai Ma Kud' from Halophlia family, 1 species of ' Ya Bai
Son' from Syrngodium family, 1 species of 'Ya Cha Ngao' from
Syrngodium spp. family and 2 species from Cymodocea spp.
Family,
1 species of long leaf
'Ya Cha Ngao' from Enhalus spp. Family,
branched leaf 'Ya Cha Ngao', 2 species of 'Ya Phom Nang' from
Halodule spp. Family and 1 species of 'Ya Tao' from Thalassia
spp. Family
Apart
from being the sight-seeing location for the ecological sea
shore, the coast line where the sea grass flourishes is regarded
as being a good place for watching dugongs.
Dugong is a kind of mammal living in the
sea.
It has a slim and shuttle-like body parallel to the ground with
two-jagged stern and no dorsal fin. Its mouth is at the lower
part of the face where the upper lip is thick like a pig's
nose.
The young dugong has a white body, while the aged one has a
grayish brown one with approximately 300 kilograms of weight.
Dugong
lives with its family, and several families join together for
feeding. It delivers one baby dugong at a time by getting pregnant
for one whole year. It is full grown at the age of 13 to 14.
Dugong looks for sea grass as its foods on the sea floor both
during day and night time.
Dugong
can be found in the east coast of African Continent, Red Sea,
along the Indian Ocean's coastal line to the Philippines, Taiwan
and northern Australia. But it is the rear animal in the Gulf
of Thailand near Rayong, Cholburi, Prachuab Kirikhan and the
Andaman Sea in Phuket, Pang Nga, Krabi and Trang.
Currently,
dugong can hardly be found. The remainders are living in a small
crowd or alone. Sometimes, they are from the territorial sea
of our neighbor countries. Dogong is regarded as the second
type of preserved forest animals categorized in Appendix 1 of
CITES covenant.
Being hunted for its
meat as foods and its grease as fuel, holding low reproduction
capability, getting affected from coastal pollution which
extinguishes sources of sea grass and algae as their nourishing
foods, dugong will be the extinct animal in Thailand in the near
future
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