Team building event at Pulau Ubin

Singapore - Woke up at 5:30am to get change and drove to Changi Point Ferry Terminal. I had a early breakfast of Nasi Lemak with Edmund and then catch up with the team bound on the ferry to Pulau Ubin.

our breakfast

Beautiful sunrise as we reach Pulau Ubin

Booked a van to bring us to the meeting venue at Chek Jawa as the tour starts at 8am sharp. The NParks ranger was there early too to open the gate to the entrance.

APAC team for this tour

Wild boar near the toilet

Chek Jawa visitor centre

This English Tudor House was built in the 1930s as a holiday retreat for the Chief Surveyor of Singapore, Landon Williams. It now serves as the Chek Jawa Visitor Centre and is located near the Chek Jawa Wetlands in eastern Pulau Ubin.

The Chek Jawa Visitor Centre is Singapore's only remaining authentic Tudor-style house with a fireplace. It is constructed in an architecturally distinctive post and beam fashion with stucco-finished walls and gables framed by timbers treated with black creosote. When restoration efforts began in 2005, it was necessary to replace damaged roof trusses and termite-infested floorboards to restore the Chek Jawa Visitor Centre's original façade. Plastered stone and brickwork had to be stripped and reinstated with original finishes.

Mud crab mould

Atap Chee fruit

Oysters along the Jetty

Only the NParks ranger allowed tour booking on Chek Jawa sand banks and there are so many interesting sea creatures.

Sea cucumber

Starfishes

We were able to touch the starfishes and when we turn the starfishes upside down, we were able to watch in amazement how they flip themselves back up again.

Horseshoe crab

Hermit crab

Mangrove seed

Sea Sponge

German Girl shrine

Pit stop to rest

Anthony on his bike

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