We return to an underwater garden at Pulau Ubin on a rare daylight low tide.
It was a delight of seafans, sponges, soft corals and more!
The water is murky, the shore is next to busy shipping. And yet, the rocky shore is alive with colourful marine life!
Colourful sponges and other creatures crowd the lowest parts of the rocky shore which is only seldom exposed at super low tides.
A look at some of the marine life on a rock.
We last visited in
July 2017. It was nice to see that the sponges remained abundant, in various kinds and colours.
In deeper water, there were all kinds of sea fans. Today, the tide was not as low as during our last trip in
July 2017 when we saw many more sea fans.
I saw many
Haddon's carpet anemones, most seemed alright. I also saw patches of
Posy anemones, lots of
Lined bead anemones, and
Banded bead anemones of various kinds.
Colourful soft corals included
Pink flowery soft corals,
Ball flowery soft corals as well as
Knobbly soft corals. There were small patches of
Zebra hard coral. And also some
Stinging hydroids.
I saw many blobs of
Ball-tip corallimorphs in many different bright colours!
I saw several
feather stars, a few large
Biscuit sea stars and some
Orange sea cucumbers and many
Sponge synaptid sea cucumbers.
Other creatures included
Bryozoans and Ascidians. I saw many
Thumbs up ascidians and
Yellow clustered ascidians. There were many
Onyx cowries too.
Alas, we continue to see fish traps on the shore. This one looks like its on 'standby'.
A fish trap in deeper water peeks out during this low spring tide.
There are also some patches of Spoon seagrass on the shore.
I also had a closer look at the magnificent Perepat that grows right next to Ubin Jetty.
Rock pools under the shade of the Perepat tree next to Ubin Jetty.
All too soon, it's sunset and the tide turns.
Photos by others on the trip
