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Where Discovery Begins: June 2009
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Saturday, June 27, 2009. Living Shores of Semakau. In this posting, i will feature all the 18 badges and have tried to at the same time show you how the real animal or plant look like in real life. What do i mean by that? Just look at the picture below to get an idea. Next up is the mangrove badge (picture below). And on Semakau and other places, you can usually spot a number of fiddler crabs near the roots of mangrove trees and around sandy areas (picture below). By the way, it would be good to note tha...
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Where Discovery Begins: Inter Tidal Walk @ Semakau on 2 Jun 2010
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Wednesday, June 9, 2010. Inter Tidal Walk @ Semakau on 2 Jun 2010. Another late and over due posting about the inter tidal walk last week. On 2 Jun 2010, I was free to help do guiding for the Project Semakau. This time round, I was assigned to guide a group of students from Boon Lay Secondary School. The second great thing that happened was that the rain cleared as we started to walk onto the inter-tidal area. Here's the group photo at the seagrass meadows (picture below). I guess the most interesting th...
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Where Discovery Begins: What is Coral Bleaching and What it means for the Corals
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Monday, June 14, 2010. What is Coral Bleaching and What it means for the Corals. Recently, an probably alarming amount of coral bleaching has been sighted and reported in Singapore and around the region. I will give a short list of blog posts with reference to some of these sightings at the end of this posting. Coral Bleaching might not ring a bell for some discoverers/readers (my own friends included), so I have decided to dedicate a post on this issue. A kind of algae) in the polyps of the corals.
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Where Discovery Begins: Why are rainbows in an arc-shaped?
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Monday, June 7, 2010. Why are rainbows in an arc-shaped? I am sure that many of you have seen a rainbow in the skies above you before. But have you ever wondered why are rainbows shaped in an arc? Great websites that explains how a rainbow is formed and why is it in a arc. A) http:/ science.howstuffworks.com/rainbow.htm. B) http:/ www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm? Rainbow Connection by Kermit the Frog. Enjoy! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). What is Coral Bleaching and What it means for the .
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Where Discovery Begins: April 2010
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Monday, April 12, 2010. Project Semakau Outreach Walk on 4 April. This is quite a belated posting on an inter-tidal walk on Semkau for the outreach program for Project Semakau. I will make this a short posting as there are other things that are waiting for me to complete. First and Second 'discovery'. Would be a cowrie (above) and heart cockle (below) found in the picture below. Is the green ceratosoma nudibranch which seems to be in season in Singapore in the first few months of the year (picture below).
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Where Discovery Begins: May 2010
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Sunday, May 30, 2010. Sad Scene of Sharks @ Semakau. Saturday morning was a morning with mixed emotions. On one hand, I have finally gotten to see a really close up view of the black tip reef shark on our reefs, which was a highlight of this trip down on the inter-tidal area of Semakau. On the other, it was with a sad note that I saw them, three of them to be exact, dead. A) http:/ tidechaser.blogspot.com/2010/05/blacktip-reef-sharks-trapped-in-drift.html. First off, I believe many of you (I refer to peo...
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Where Discovery Begins: March 2010
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Sunday, March 7, 2010. A Walk into the Mangroves. Today (7th Mar), with the guide of some friends, I had the chance to explore the Mandai Mangroves and find the face-banded sesarmine crabs. Will focus more on animals this posting since I did not really take photos of plants. =D. As we walked into the mangroves, one of the first few organisms we spotted, First 'discovery'. Will be mangrove horseshoe crabs (picture below). If you are interested to read more about them, click here. They are spiders commonly...
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Where Discovery Begins: October 2009
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Monday, October 19, 2009. Semakau Inter Tidal walk on 18 Oct 2009. Anyway, past memories aside, here's one of the first few things we saw during the trip. The first 'discovery'. Of this posting an olive whelk (picture below). Something really common but I have not seen before or probably never taken note before. Dead bodies aside, let's take a look at some live ones captured on photographs.hahaha (picture below). For this posting would be common sea stars (picture below). However, you don't need to get w...
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Where Discovery Begins: August 2009
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Monday, August 24, 2009. Semakau Inter-Tidal walk on 23 Aug 2009. As I left my house at about 4 am on Sunday morning, it was still drizzling and lighting flashed in the distance. The scene got me a little worried as we were heading out to Semakau yesterday morning (Sunday) and we would not be able to conduct an inter-tidal walk if a lighting alert has been given over the area. After crossing the meadow, we came across this creature staring at us with its pair of eyes (picture below). Read more about the ...
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Where Discovery Begins: September 2009
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Saturday, September 26, 2009. Colourful crabs plus an insect and a plant @ Chek Jawa. Anyway, during the guided walk and also our own exploration, we saw the really pretty and colourful fiddler crabs found alongside the boardwalk in the mangroves of Chek Jawa. My photos of them are not really clear as my camera possesses only a 3x optical zoom. I should get one with more optical zoom soon. anyway, here are some photos of them (pictures below). For a detailed blog entry for the walk. Semakau Inter-Tidal W...
