There is a very long seawall at East Coast Park that is only exposed at super low tide. Amazing corals have encrusted the seawall. While seagrasses have settled in the lagoon behind the seawall.
Today, for the first time in months, the team shake out dusty booties and head out to survey this shore. The Drone also flew for an aerial view of this marvelous reef! To my relief, we didn't see much coral bleaching.
Corals have settled all over this artificial shore.
I didn't dare to go out to the wall, but still saw lots of corals nearer the high shore.
Here's some of the corals that I saw. I didn't see any coral that were bleaching.
Kok Sheng the Human Climbing Crab went out on the narrow wall and shares this photo of the corals encrusting the wall.
While Heng Pei Yan, the Drone Commander, flew the Drone for these awesome aerials of the coral reef.
Our last trip here was in May 2016 before the widespread onset of mass coral bleaching. But Arjun Sai Krishnan reported lots of bleaching here when he surveyed it in July 2016. So it's good to see that lots of corals made it through the mass coral bleaching event.
There are also all kinds of colourful sponges growing on the rocky areas.
The concrete walls are alive! Lots of encrusting critters like oysters and barnacles, as well as tiny snails, slugs and crabs. These coils are probably eggs laid by the Guam false limpets that look like little conical hats.
