We went to Pulau Ubin biking again with Justin during Lunar New Year holiday, January 23, 2023.
The day stared dry, actually the Sun came out for a few minutes when we started our biking.
We went to Pekan Quarry first - and saw a large flock of herons and egrets in a habitat platform. We then climbed Bukit Puaka for a view of Ubin Quarry and the Johor Strait. It was still early in the morning - there were few people at either place.
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| Herons and Egrets on a habitat platform |
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| Pekan Quarry |
After Bukit Puaka, we biked to the Ubin Quarry view point, and continued to Chek Jawa Wetlands. About half way, the sky opened, it started to pour! We stood under a large tree for a few minutes, and at the guide of a migrant worker, we went to a shelter 50 yards down the road after a turn, and waited for the rain to stop for 15 minutes.
When the rain turned into a drizzle, we biked on to Chek Jawa.
The trail was muddy. When we got to Chek Jawa biking lot, the back of our pants and shirts had streaks of mud stains. As we walked into the enclosed wetland, a troupe of long tail macaques greeted us in the middle of the trail, and a wild boar. As we approached them, the boar disappeared into the woods before I could take a picture of it.
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| A wild boar |
When we got to viewing jetty, a wild boar walked into my view and stayed around to look for food, and for us to take pictures of it. The Pulau Sekudu, i.e. Frog island, was half submerged in water due to high tide. Herons, egrets and a sea eagle were resting on the islet.
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| Heron and Egrets on Pulau Sekudu |
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| The sea eagle was at the tip of the rock near the middle |
As we walked onto the Chek Jawa boardwalk, we spotted a sea snake (did not got a picture) and a crocodile, and many pacific swallow.
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| A crocodile at Pulau Ubin |
We also finally figured out the mud mounds in the wetland - mud crabs' nests
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| The crab is not easy to see - near the hole |
We climbed the Jejawi tower to look at the island and the Johor strait.
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| Mangroves at Eastern Pulau Ubin |
I had a good time at Chek Jawa: saw wild life we had not seen there before. When we returned to the bike park, a large group of long tail macaques and three wild boars were hanging around … waiting for food I believe. They did not see the usual white grocery plastic bags with us, they did not even approach us :)
We continued to our next stop at Pula Ubin, the butterfly hill, passing by sensory trail, and a small beach at the end of a branch of sensory trail - our favorite place, the beach was fully submerged in water due to high tide.
The visit to Butterfly Hill was not very good due to rain, few butterflies flew around, and the gazebo was fully occupied by a group. We could not take shelter there when the rain became heavy again.
The interlude between heavy rains got shorter, we returned our bikes and took ferry back to the main island.
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