Pulau Seletar and Sungei Khatib Bongsu

Whoops, better post it onto here before I forget.

So last year in Mar 2017, as part of a facilitation project, we manage to get onto kayaks and did a 2D1N Iternary as follow

Day 1
Sembawang Park
Mangrove kayak near Simpang,
Pulau Seletar for shore clean up
Land at Punggol Point Jetty for lunch
Kelong "visit" near Ubin
Land at Ubin for Camping (Jelutong Campsite)

Day 2
Mangrove Kayak at Ubin
Going pass Pulau Ketam
Land at Pasir Ris Park

Which leads me to talk about 2 uncovered places today. Pulau Seletar and Sungei Khatib Bongsu

So where is Sungei Khatib Bongsu and Pulau Seletar? They are located on the map above and coordinates as follow

Sungei Khatib Bongsu: 1.437949, 103.856500

Pulau Seletar: 1.443451, 103.861264

SUNGEI KHATIB BONGSU

Now, you wont be able to see the Mangrove river from the Google street map. But when switched to Satellite view, the magic appears

Who knew there were Mangroves here at Sungei Khaib Bongsu here near Simpang?

Some Structure along Khatib Bongsu. Wonder whats it use for

So basically at Katib Bongsu, there were several amazing things. Firstly, there was some structure like the above, I wonder what it was for, (with ref to: https://thelongnwindingroad.wordpress.com/tag/sungei-khatib-bongsu/ , this apparently was former prawn ponds) also, we were not alone! there are actually some fishermen doing fishing! (see picture below).

The highlight was probably going into the Mangrove where the guide showed us the different type of plants here on our kayak.

Moving into the Khatib Bongsu mangrove

Onwards!

What a jam! we had slowly maneuver the tight spaces with our Kayaks, Who said only Sungei Buloh had Mangroves?

Fishermen on his makeshift boat!

Here in the mangroves, i recall one guy in the team found a box with some crabs inside! the guide decide to take it and release the crabs.

What a ride! Now, it was time to carry on our journey to Pulau Seletar! The island looks secluded. But I woulden't know since we only had the privilege to be at the shore only. Singapore water seems to be really dirty as the island is full of rubbish probably brought about by the tide. Nonetheless, it shows we can do much more to keep our waters clean.

Hit the shore for a beach clean up

Participants were asked to find rubbish and place it into rubbish bags

After Pulau Seletar, we moved towards Punggol Point to have our lunch! On the way there, We passed Pulau Punggol Berat and Pulau Punggol Timour. While I have seen these island from land before, it is the first time I am seeing it from sea. Enjoy!

Fenced off area of Pulau Punggol Berat

Trucks  transporting not sure what along Pulau Punggol Timor

Huge boats berthing at Pulau Punggol Timor

Workers Dorm at Pulau Punggol Timor

That;s it for now, in our next post, we will talk about a few more "lost" places in SG such as our offshore Fish Farms (Kelongs) (near Ubin), Pulau Ketam and Mangroves at Pulau Ubin!