Accidental Tourist - Taking a Boat Ride down Singapore River with Singapore Shutterjourney PhotographyGroup

One of the most touristy things to do in Singapore is to take a cruise down the Singapore River and Singapore Shutterjourney Photography Group did just that over one of the weekends in July coining the event "The Accidental Tourist". 

A bunch of shutterbugs keen on taking photos that can only be sighted from the boat/ water level gathered at the Clarke Quay before cruising our way down to the Merlion and looping back to the same location. The entire journey was quite a treat and armed with my trusty Ricoh, these are my photos for the day. 

Photo that can only be taken from the Boat

Bemused tourists looking at us (pseudo tourists) 

Till the next time, onto the world and beyond! 

Accidental Tourist - the Singapore Bukit Brown Battle has been lost....

Announcement in the news on Aug 5, 2013 casts a heavy shadow over the plight of Bukit Brown and its surrounding area. It is now confirmed that the Land Transport Authority has awarded a tender to build a new road linking Adam Road, the MacRitchie Viaduct and Thomson Road via Bukit Brown Cemetery (with little mention of any impact on the land areas occupied by premier exclusive country club, Singapore Island Country Club) at a cost of S$134.7 million. The winner of the tender is local contractor Swee Hong, which is expected to complete construction by end 2017. 4,153 graves will be affected by or are in the vicinity of the new road. This news is just too sad but I find this in sync with the overall lunar 7^th month ghostly feel that started on 7 Aug.

For those who want to know what the fuss is about, please drop by my earlier blog posts: 

• http://accidentalsingaporetourist.blogspot.sg/2013/06/accidental-tourist-tale-of-2-greens.html
• http://accidentalsingaporetourist.blogspot.sg/2012/03/mixed-feelings-walks-around-bukit-brown.html

Until the next time, onto the world and beyond.