Archive for the 'Kranji' Category

Kranji Mudbath

06Jul08

The setting for today’s adventure involves a significant amount of mud and thus, however one would like to look at it, cannot quite be described as glamorous. Things are perhaps justified by the subject, which is undeniably interesting: the horseshoe crab, living fossil, humble scavenger, and -  to lovingly bastardise Hughes’ poetry -  god [...]


 
 

Visitors to Singapore’s Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve listen bemusedly as the rationale behind traditional prawn farming is explained to them. Prawns are allowed to breed and grow naturally in a sectioned-off area of the mangrove, and harvesting times are synchronised with the tide. The close working relationship between man and mangrove provides an incentive for [...]