I volunteered myself as a guide for tourist and visitor at Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve
Midway through Mandai road towards Kranji it started pouring and before long I go caught in a thunderstorm. Boy was it scary trying to evade those trucks in the down pour.
Thoughs of skipping the session went through my helmet and my mind”I could be home sleeping or at work earning money ” BUT “I’m not in this for money, in fact i’ll only be paid transport fees if I’m lucky. I’m doing this for the fact I am passionate in the bio-diversity around me”
Manage to make my way to the centre and the guy at the counter looked at me and said “wouldnt be out in this weather if I were you”
I swear I would have stuffed my helmet in his mouth if he wasnt wearing the staff T-shirt.
Anyway we took a 3 hour lecture on the local fauna diversity in Sungei Buloh. Saw a few sleepy heads yawning away. We then proceeded to the outdoor lesson with K.S. Wong, a Old timer and nature activist. He happens to be the only guy in the room to ride other then me. O yea he claims to be a herbivore(vegetarian) but I’m a totally different species, I’m a carnivore! by choice that is 
K.S Wong giving us short info on the local mangrove fishes. Aiya I know already. I got fish blood! lai lai skip!
Muddy water at the dam due to torriential rain
Proceeding to cross the first bridge with the rest of the guides.
Sceneries from main hide
Stray dogs which I learn are pests affecting the wildlife here at Sungei Buloh.
Low tide at platform 1. Conservation actions are already being implemented around here. Fences erected to keep debris such as paper,plastic cups, clothes, shoes,MasSelamat, lightbulbs,bubble wraps and such from entering the mangroves.
These little bumps are actually common Nerita(mollusc) grazing on algae.
A cotton stainer bug which feeds only on seeds of sea hibiscus trying to act chio to attract me.
Happen to snap a groups of Homo Sapiens as well.
Green grasshopper, I cant identify which species it belongs to. Can you?
Another ape with a matching body markings to blend into it’s surroundings. Here you can see him stalking out his prey.
Can you spot the Atlas moth’s catapillar? It’s green and so it camouflages darn well, one of my female guide spotted it and it took me quite some time to spot it.
Fun fact: When adult, it’s wing span measures 12 inches tip to tip(roughly the length of 3 i phones )
This Green crested lizard is native to Singapore.Decided to made a rare appearance when everyone was leaving the area. Only I manage to spot it in time and snapped this before alerting everyone who came and scare the poor fella off.
White breasted water hen running across the walkway. Funny name huh. Translated in Hokkien: Peh Nei Nei Zhui kway
O yea when I was in the cubicle peeing I saw something slithering along the sides(the toilets are open concept). Turned out to be a Malayan monitor lizard. Fuuuckanaathannn scare the pee out of me.
After the debrief, where else but back home!
