It was a lazy Sunday afternoon yesterday. And instead of hitting town, AGAIN, we decided to take a drive to the 'wilderness' we know as Kranji. In north-western Singapore, its part industrial wasteland, part Tarzan jungle =))
On the way there, we passed by the only Dragon Kiln on our island. A dragon kiln is so called because the damn thing looks like, well, a long fire-breathing lizard. The claywares are put into the 50m thingee, and they are fired inside from an inferno created at the 'mouth' of the dragon. From the pic below you can't see the whole kiln, only the front so try to imagine =))
And there was this doggie guarding the kiln. Kidding lah, our mandatory canine shot. Grumpy fella.
Pots, freshly fired for sale.
Old-fashioned Dragon pots. Now I know where to find them!
We had heard so much about Bollywood Veggies, an organic farm run by 2 rich but retired 'celebrities' who now spend their time tending to bananas and sweet potato. There's a cosy little cafe on the farm called Poison Ivy where the owners dish out a real mean chicken curry with organic potatoes, farm-bred chickens, no MSG and no coconut milk =)) Sedap! But we had to pay 2 bucks to get into the farm which was, sadly, a bit unkempt and cowdung-ish =)) But ok lah not bad.
Dunno wat flower but I liked the orangy hues. Must flip Botany textbook liao.
The recurring fruit on the farm, bananas...
and more bananas..baby ones
One of the few patches of respectable-looking veggies. The rest were either harvested or looked like they were hit by a particularly bad drought.
A lotus pond at the back of the farm. Looked like giant duckweed to me =))
We liked this little fella. Abit of an identity crisis the poor thing cos we think one of his parents must have been a bee =))
Next stop, we dropped by the Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve. K and me used to be part-time nature guides and we brought students on field trips here very often. Not to see birds
per se but to tramp around the mangroves and get ourselves all icky in the mud. Up close and personal with Mother Nature you see. All these urbanised kiddos! We could spend the whole day here, amongst the stilt and pencil roots of this important ecosystem, telling them about horseshoe crabs and gobies and how the Mangroves play such a vital role in species diversity and conservation.
View from the main hut on the reserve. Too hot for birds today so we saw only a couple. Somemore no Binos. Hiazz.
Sungei Buloh which means the Buloh River...I think =))
Bridge Over River Buloh =))
What a walk on the Wild Side! =))