Chek Jawa 20/01/07

Finally a trip to Chek Jawa. This time together with Team Seagrass for orientation. Really feel fortunate to go with them for many reasons. Though its a volunteer thing, I feel the amt of work I volunteered is less compared to the time and effort and money they forked out to plan everything. Even the boat rides were waived. They had also prepared vans to fetch us there. To go there is really difficult because the entranced is guarded and getting there is another problem with bicycle. They prepared everything for us, all we have to do is to be there and help out with the actual work. To be out with the avid nature lovers was really great as we marvel at God's creations. God is good because due to reasons I cant make it on Sun so I prayed that please dont rain on Sat when I go so I can no need return on Sun. Indeed God is really good. It was raining elsewhere at Tekong and Punggol etc real heavily but not at Chek Jawa. We only had a few minutes of drizzling. Ria even suggested it will rain heavily for long time after analysing the clouds. Thank God!











Chek Jawa is a great place to be soaked in the tranquility of nature.



The gloomy weather was nothing compared to the mass death at Chek Jawa due to torrential rain both in SG and Johor bringing freshwater (from rain and Johor River) to that place. Because of osmotic pressure reasons, they were exploding and dying everywhere. Hope it will be back to colourful and healthy state soon.



Deaths of Chek Jawa



Living things are still around! Beautiful. I hope to see Chek Jawa back more alive the next time. Thanks Raymond, Shuying, Edwin n Siling for taking their time out to join us. I believe we all really enjoyed the whole thing.


Night falls


Fabulous dinner @ Bedok

Labrador Intertidal @ 0.3m

This morning woke up at 5:30am to gear up for today's intertidal trip with Marcus, Shuying and Alex at Labrador, Singapore last natural rocky beach on the mainland. Though we reach later than expected, the shore was still very alive and we marvelled at God's creation throughout. It was a great trip and I'm looking forward for the next one in October.


Early "birds" like us catches the "worms"


"Sea-veggie"? Algae I suppose


This thing looks like dead flower but shrivels and disappear upon contact


Purple sponge


Part of a hard coral


This slimy looking mud is alive!


Dead calcium carbonate skeletons of corals


Confused..are they sea anemones or comb jellies family type?


3 in one... spot them!


It's dead, too bad


Is this dead too.. you decide


See spider? or "Sea-spider"


Barnacles


Mudskipper cutey


Aerial view from top


Can you afford to lose our last rocky shore?


(All photos taken by myself using my hp camera..haha)

Sentosa Seagrass Transect

Hello all! Had a great start to a day by waking up at 5am in order to reach Sentosa's last natural shore on time with low tide. Though I was sleepy and tired, the nature enthusiasism never seem to run out throughout the day and time passed real fast while we were having loads of fun. God's creation are marvellous. Just look at the biodiversity of the creatures living there! Today I was not really my usual self, rather I was estatic and shuffling about the whole stretch of shore like a kid in a playground nonstop. Kudos to the Wild Singapore team, esp Ria and Siti, for organising this event. They really took a lot of hardwork and heart into preparing everything "swee swee" or beautiful for us. Thanks also for our Team Halo for all the good job, we had good company. Siling backed out last min, oh sad man, you missed out a lot. :P

I have a lot of photos I wanna share, it's going to flood my blog. I don't care cos they are so beautiful! Let the picture do the talking, not me k?

(Credits: All photos taken by Team Halo's camera belonging to Irene, except 1st & 3rd last photos by WW, 2nd last photo by Raymond and last photo by Ria on her Wildfilm blog)


Good morning Sentosa!


Nice cliff behind the shore


How the transect square is laid for measurement and observation


A cutey nudibranch


Hairy Crab


This looks very interesting



Is this a coral or a sponge?


Spider treading across


Sea Anemone retracted inwards due to heat and no water, it responded to our itchy fingers. :P


Hard coral, think called Tongue Slipper Coral


Another coral with the colony of polyps


A closer look. These stuffs responded by closing to the stimuli induced by me :P


Reall pretty nudibranch! Made Yvonne very excited


Again, dunno Coral or sponge?


Blue Sponge


Crab hiding under a coral


School of catfishes that swam passed me!


More unknown objects.. opps


Crappy Crab


Beautiful greenish coral


Ria named these 'fingered' pink soft coral as 'surgical-glove leathery coral'. Haha!


Can you spot two fighting or I dunnoe, perhaps mating crabs?


A green seaworm or seasnake gliding across


Pretty little blue fish, photo destroyed by murky waters we created


Well camouflaged fish


Don't you dare step on a fireworm... sure you will get high!


A green nudibranch and a flower crab cohabiting... hee


Lots of pitcher plants at the coast


Tanjong Rimau beacon, near Fort Siloso


Me me and me. The nature enthusiastic side of me.


Team Halo! Gaytri, Me, Irene and Yvonne


Nemo, my OG. Shuying, Grace, me, Ket Pin and Raymond


Shout Horray! Well done folks :)


Wildfilm blog: http://www.wildsingapore.com.sg/wildfilms/blog/