A visit to a Mangrove Forest ( Sungei Boloh, Singapore )
We had a office excursion to one of the Nature Parks in Singapore . Some pictures of what we saw there.
The north west shore of Singapore has a lot of tiny rivers draining into the
placid waters that separate the island from Malaysia . The perfect environment
for Mangroves.
These stilt like plants grow in shallow, warm tropical waters.
They help in preventing shore erosion and also are home to crabs, mud-skippers,
snakes and birds.
Big scam sign, We could not spot a single Crocodile. I guess the guides and
the teachers accompanying the school children use this sign to scare the kids
into keeping quiet.
You can see the Johor coast ( Malaysia ) from here.
From here too.
These guys had some huge lenses.
And now lets look at the animals that live out here.
A pit viper - belonging to the same family of snakes as the rattlesnake, pit
vipers are venomous.
A mud-skipper stuck to a branch. Mud-skippers have muscular gills that they
use to jump about.
A monitor lizard trying to sneak out.
We used to think animal was extinct. Here is a last of its kind, the "Jackysaurus" in
its natural habitat.