Monday, September 26, 2011
The Ice Cream Man and The Cat
Before making our way home after a very happy trip to Pulau Ubin, we had ice cream even though it was raining.
Of course mine was durian flavour ice cream sandwiched between two waffle biscuits.
Snugging comfortably in a corner is this very cute cat.
The cat followed us from the ferry terminal to the car park hahaha.
Friday, September 23, 2011
Pulau Ubin - Jetty
The rain spoilt our plan to continue our walk on Pulau Ubin. Since our group consists of senior folks, we decided to go back and come back another day.
Headed to the jetty where all the bum boats are. Same thing as when we arrived, they needed 12 passengers to depart from the island. But it is no problem, being a weekend, the boat soon filled in no time.
The sky is very gloomy although the rain had finally stop.
Once in the boat, the rain fell heavily again.
A view of the end of the boat, looked as if the boat is almost same level as the sea.
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Headed to the jetty where all the bum boats are. Same thing as when we arrived, they needed 12 passengers to depart from the island. But it is no problem, being a weekend, the boat soon filled in no time.
The sky is very gloomy although the rain had finally stop.
Once in the boat, the rain fell heavily again.
A view of the end of the boat, looked as if the boat is almost same level as the sea.
For other sky watchers, please hop over to Skywatch Blog.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Pulau Ubin - Food
The best part of the visit on Pulau Ubin must be food hahaha. We had lunch at the above restaurant. The food is superb and the portion is big. We called medium size but is like large size on mainland Singapore.
Sambal Kangkong - so good
Kampong Chicken - wow I still can remember the taste and smell. This is really very delicious. The chicken are reared on Pulau Ubin. Next visit, I will order this dish again.
Sweet and Sour pork - also so good
Claypot tofu and assorted vegetables - a real huge pot - delicious
Omelette with onion
After lunch, we planned to walk around the island and stay for seafood dinner. But suddenly it was raining so heavily and we had to seek shelter in one of the villager's compound.
We plan to have seafood dinner at this restaurant but the rain came pouring, we could not go round the island so we decided to go back and come back another day to look for another temple on the island.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Pulau Ubin - scenery
My goodness this is the first time I step onto Pulau Ubin. Really surprised that I like it so much. So full of nature and good food too. :)
An abandoned granite quarry - it looked like a very beautiful lake now.
Granite quarrying was once a major industry on Ubin. The first quarry was started in the 1800's. Ubin's granite was used to build the Horsburgh Lighthouse and Raffles Lighthouse, the two extreme points of Singapore. And, by some accounts, the Causeway linking Singapore to Malaysia as well. Read more from source
Walking around the village and we saw some nice houses.
An abandoned house
This is one of the most grand malay house on the island.
Besides wild boars, there are also many wild monkeys on the island. Please dont feed them.
I guess this is the one and only post box on Pulau Ubin near the jetty.
An abandoned granite quarry - it looked like a very beautiful lake now.
Granite quarrying was once a major industry on Ubin. The first quarry was started in the 1800's. Ubin's granite was used to build the Horsburgh Lighthouse and Raffles Lighthouse, the two extreme points of Singapore. And, by some accounts, the Causeway linking Singapore to Malaysia as well. Read more from source
Walking around the village and we saw some nice houses.
An abandoned house
This is one of the most grand malay house on the island.
Besides wild boars, there are also many wild monkeys on the island. Please dont feed them.
I guess this is the one and only post box on Pulau Ubin near the jetty.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
My World Tuesday - Pulau Ubin - Wild Boar
After touring Chek Jawa, we made our way out to meet out Van driver. We called him via the name card he gave us earlier when he drop us at the entrance of Chek Jawa. But suddenly we were all excited at the sight of wild boars near the entrance of Chek Jawa.
We saw three of them. The Van driver told us that there are more of them but some are hidden in the bushes.
The van driver waiting for us at the pick up point just at the gate of Chek Jawa.
A short video of the wild boar eating some food left by the van driver. Seems like the wild boar recognized the villagers very well hahaha.
Lots of bicycles at the entrance of Chek Jawa.
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