Quarriessss

Places I visited today:
1) Bk Timah Nature Reserves
2) Singapore Quarry
3) Hindhede Quarry (in vain)
4) Sembawang Hot Spring
5) Pierce Reservoirs

My last attempt at Bk Timah hill was slightly more than a decade ago. Today, my colleague and I took a more challenging route, and nbz... some of the steps were as high as my knee level. Nvetheless, it was a pretty short trail, v cooling and peaceful. There was also a huge fallen tree (5 times thicker than me?), and its fallen trunk extended abt at least 20 over metres.

The sad thing was that the summit/peak of bk timah is such a bore. One can no longer have a bird's eye view of Singapore (the water catchment area and 3 reservoirs), as the trees have all grown up, blocking the views. I was amazed by how fast these trees go.. but think abt it, the last time i went to the summit was 17yrs ago, when i was still a pri sch kid. The nice scenery i once enjoyed was no longer available.. sighz.

Next, we tried to access the Hindhede Quarry, but in vain. The cliff was simply too steep from the Bk Timah side, so we decided to try our luck on Singapore Quarry instead, which we tried accessing from Rail-way Mal sidel. We bashed through a v thin forests before reaching an abandoned road, leading us to the quarry (see pic). I believe this road was once used by big trucks to transport out the granites from the quarry, but the road has been blocked and abandoned since. And lady luck was really on our side tat we soon found the 'entrance' to the quarry!!! We were v excited, even though the quarry was fenced up. The place was really so peaceful, quiet but also deserted tat i wonder when it was last visited.

The 3rd destination was to visit the hot spring at Sembawang. I heard tat the hot spring was located within the military ground, and the govt has to specially re-fence the military ground so that the public can access to it (after much requests from the citizens). Sad to say... no hot spring was found. Instead, we only find a cemented ground with a few taps tat were gushing out with extremely hot water (from the spring of cos!). No natural sights.. shld have done more homework before i visit it today.

Last stop was Pierce reservoirs - which i have been before.

A nice but very tiring walk for today. Hindhede Quarry is our next target destination, but i heard the ONLY accessible entrance is restricted to only pass-holders of certain rock country clubs.. damm..