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...

Eyes Of 30,000 Honeycombs

With 30,000 individual facets, dragonflies have the most number of facets among insects. Each facet, or ommatidia, creates its own image, and the dragonfly brain has eight pairs of descending visual neurons to compile those thousands of images into one picture...

A Kaleidoscope Of Colours, Shapes And Patterns

Spectacular and innovative in design, the Flower Dome replicates the cool-dry climate of Mediterranean regions like South Africa, California and parts of Spain and Italy. Home to a collection of plants from deserts all over the world, it showcases the adaptations of plants to arid environments...

Lightning Strikes, Not Once, But Many Times

Unlike light, lightning does not travel in a straight line. Instead, it has many branches. These other branches flashed at the same time as the main strike. The branches are actually the step leaders that were connected to the leader that made it to its target...

Are You My Dinner Tonight?

A T-Rex has 24-26 teeth on its upper jaw and 24 more on its lower jaw. Juveniles have small, sharp blade-shaped teeth to cut flesh, whereas adults have huge, blunt, rounded teeth for crushing bones. Is the T-Rex a bone-crushing scavenger?

Journey To The East

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Punggol
North-East, Singapore
September 2012
Cloudy
     
The first day of September seemed to be a good day to wake up early to see sunrise. At 0600h, when the skies were still pitch black, Merlion Wayfarer set off on her journey to the east...

   
Today happened to be a cloudy day, and her hopes were not high as she looked out of the window. (Haiz!)

Monet-like clouds in the lightening skies...

Early morning boats zip past to the kelongs nearby...

Birds are up early too...

   
A lone stroller picking up shells on the shores for breakfast...
 
And... there is always a silver lining in the clouds. And at 0730 hours, the golden orb broke through the cumulus clouds and created an expanse of brilliant yellow which reflected off the sea in a golden stream.

   
It was Low Tide In The North-East when Merlion Wayfarer encountered Nature's Sonic Booooom at the beach. Did she get stunned?

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