Day: 14 August 2012
Jurong Bird Park
Our visit to Jurong Bird Park was hot and steamy, but very rewarding in seeing some beautiful birds. Jurong Bird Park is a world-famous bird zoo where there are specimens of magnificent bird life from around the world, including a flock of around one thousand flamingos. There are over 25 endangered species. It is currently […]
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To Have and to Hold, For Richer and for Poorer . . . .
It was 40 years ago today that we exchanged our wedding vows at St Peter’s Anglican Church in Box Hill. We were young, and perhaps naive, but optimistically looking out to the future together. The vicar warned us that because I had grown up as a Methodist and Jill as an Anglican, that ‘mixed marriages’ […]
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Marina Bay
Last night. we strolled across the new Helix Bridge to take some night photos of Marina Bay and then had dinner at one of the restaurants fronting the bay. The Marina Bay area of Singapore is a new development that began in the 1970s, when land reclamation was carried out at Marina Bay, forming what […]
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