June 27th, 2005
A couple of weekends ago, we made plans to take Adam and Ange over to Pulau Ubin to go mountain biking, and to scope out other trails for when Adam's kids came to stay for a month. Jeremy and I geared up and took our overnight bags and began our cycle over to Adam's place in the East. We ran a few errands along the way, and even saw a few new things worthy of a few pictures.


We had never seen this bridge before...how could we have missed it? Usually when we trek to the West, we are on the MRT or busses...so it's very likely that we had never been on this road before.


This bridge is not far from the Clark Quay area.

And after we finished our errands, we began to work our way to Adam's place. We couldn't figure out why certain roads were blocked off and soon found out why as we wound around parts of town to get us back on track. We asked some folks what the deal was, and found that the city was 'practicing for the National Day festivities'. However, what we since learned, was that because the committee for choosing the city for the Olympics was going to be here in a few days...we thought that Singapore was pulling out the straws to impress the committee...What we saw was certainly impressive. And awesome, b/c there were NO CARS to fight with on the roads!


Hard to see but at the end of this road, and to the right there are lots of tanks lined up...


Many many tanks. We must have ridden by at least a mile or more of heavy ammunitions!




And missels, and we even saw these bridge vehicles, that are a bridge, they just line up one in front of the other and literally make a bridge for heavy vehicles to drive over! We even saw the land to sea vehicles! Everything was clean and freshly painted and the military men were in their clean camos with painted faces...it's was an awesome site...

That was all on Saturday! Sunday was our biking day to Ubin! We got up, made some breakfast smoothies, had some coffee and tea and began our ride to the Changi Ferry Terminal where we would catch our bumboat over to Ubin.


Here's Ange, Jeremy and myself, loading onto the bumboat.


Jeremy, always happy to be biking!


They stowed our bikes at the back of the boat and there was a family that rode along with us in our smelly biking gear!


Singapore behind us. Very cute kids enjoying the breeze!


Adam and Kelly on the boat. The older, cuter kids!


Bye bye Singapore! The views of Ubin ahead! See, no tall buildings! Pulau Ubin is supposed to be the last natural environment of Singapore. Everything is as it was 50 yrs ago. However, with the avian bird flu on the rise, the Friday before we went to Ubin, all the chicken farmers had to get rid of the rest of their stocks in an effort to protect Singapore from this highly contageous virus! No more chicken farmers on Ubin!

Once we arrived and unloaded the bikes, we were on our way...off into the jungle.


Adam and Jer looking at a flower, which then piqued their interest in a colony of ants!




You can see the pinchers and eyeballs of these buggers!


And since everyone now knows that I sweat from every pore on my body, here is the proof. While we were stopped for the boys to look at flowers and ants, I started sweating! T--this one's for you! Is it really glistening?


Ange lifting her bike over a very big tree that was down over the trail...


Which Jeremy was able to ride over!


On our way back towards the ferry terminal, we passed all these folks getting bags of fresh rambutans.


Adam at our late lunch before pushing off for the ferry.


Kel at late lunch.


Adam and Ange.


Jer and Kel.


The bumboats!

All in all we did a lot of riding that weekend. We were pooped out! Between the distances, and the heat, which we were lucky the sun DIDN'T shine on us, we were exhausted! But had a great adventure to Pulau Ubin with Adam and Ange and found some nice trails!

© December 6, 2008