The Flying Saucer At Sunset

Lenticular clouds (Altocumulus lenticularis) are stationary lens-shaped clouds with a smooth layered appearance that form in the troposphere, usually above mountain ranges. One was spotted in Singapore recently...

Contrail Streaking Across A Golden Sunrise Sky

Singapore August 2013 A contrail streaking across the sky at sunrise... More photos are available on Merlion Wayfarer Goes Green's Picasa at : Natural Phenomena - Clouds ...

Are You My Dinner Tonight?

Titans of the Past - Dinosaurs and Ice Age Mammals Science Centre West, Singapore 24 October 2013 Last night, Merlion Wayfarer travelled back in time to the Cretaceous Period 65 million years ago...  Hail! A "dragon" from the past... A herd of Triceratops - from Baby Tri all the way to Grandpa Tri... Watch out! Don't breathe... Don't move at all! More gigantic displays coming soon... Keep a look out! ...

There Is A Mountain In Front Of Me!

Singapore  23 October 2013 Merlion Wayfarer's recent posting on mushrooms and flying saucers in the sky ("The Mushroom That Became A Flying Saucer At Sunset") created so much excitement among her friends that she decided to investigate the rare occurrence of these clouds... Mushrooms & Flying Saucers Lenticular clouds (Altocumulus lenticularis) are stationary lens-shaped clouds with a smooth layered appearance that form in the troposphere,...

The Mushroom That Became A Flying Saucer At Sunset

Singapore 15 October 2013 An amazing thing happened at sunset today... First view of this evening's sunset - A remote mushroom cloud with pink, purple and blue streaks  which gradually blossomed into another spiral mushroom cloud... Doesn't this look like rock formations? Delicious bubble gum-coloured wisps... Minutes later, this huge left-angled shadow was formed. How often do you see an upward-casted shadow? This...

Fair Weather Clouds

Singapore 24 August 2013 Cirrocumulus stratiformis clouds faraway up in the sky which foretell fair weather for the next half day... More photos are available on Merlion Wayfarer Goes Green's Picasa at : Natural Phenomena - Clouds ...

New Moon Shining Through

Singapore 10 August 2013 A new moon shining through with the Earth casting a shadow over it... More photos are available on Merlion Wayfarer Goes Green's Picasa at :Natural Phenomena - The Moon   ...

Balmy Breeze By The Waterway

Punggol Waterway  North-East, Singapore  March 2013 An orb-weaver awaits inverted on its web... A nasty-looking Leucauge Argentina (Silver Leucauge) glares at curious passers-by...   More photos are available on Merlion Wayfarer Goes Green's Picasa at :  Arachnida - Araneidae (Orb-Weavers)   ...

An Encounter With The Wolves

North-East, Singapore September 2013 Among the dozens of wolves spotted...  Every item on the ground is a potential playground... The courting ritual between the male and the female with the male waving his front legs up in a dance...  A close-up of a female with her more muted earth colours... A few other interesting friends on the pebbles - a Caelifera (Grasshopper), a pair of Diplopoda...