It's been a long time...lazy, lazy. So what have I been up to the last 8 months or so? Well many things but no need to tell grandmother stories here. Suffice to say that I'm now shuttling between SG and HCMC. Have been exploring our local parks and walks (a paradise compared to HCMC) and this morning, it was a stroll in the park ... Punggol Park to be exact. I've lived near there, witnessed the building of the park but never really explored it ... the shame of it all.
It's a nice and peaceful place, underused as most parks are in Singapore and a great place for me to perfect my skating falls in the future. Yes, I know not what I was doing when I took up inline skating. But no choice. Cannot run as knees are out of order, walking is a tad slow for me so blading is the next course of action.
Some photos here that I took while on my walk today (click for bigger pix).
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| Panaromic view of Punggol Park |
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| Reflections |
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| Hardworking Ant! |
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| Hardworking Bee! |
Was very thrilled with this little bird. Many of his bros were around but they were all shy except for him. So I followed him around for about 20 min.
Later found that he was a Striated Heron (aka Little Heron, Little Mangrove Heron, Little Green Heron, Green-backed Heron) and probably the most common heron in our area (according to
singaporebirds.net). Really? How come I've seen so few of it around?
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| Close-up of the Striated Heron |
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| Snack is served |
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| Poor Ant or something... |
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Another bro of the Striated Heron species
I found along the canal |
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