Punggol Waterfront Hike 25August 2018

Written by Chong Min Rei, Senior Sixer & Scribe

It was an early morning the sun hasn’t even risen when I woke up that day was going to be a long day. While waiting, Cubs killed time by playing and talking to one another. not long, everybody had arrived and Mr Cheong had begun his short briefing before the hike. We then took attendance and went off. 

The bus ride was long and relaxing so we could get extra sleep before the long hike ahead of us. When we got of the bus we went to look at the sea between Singapore and Malaysia, we saw the loading area in Malaysia there were multiple boats filled with cargo. We continued the hike by walking along the beautiful sea and stopped in front of the gate leading into the waterfront to take a picture. When we went through the gates we immediately saw a monkey curiously looking at us. I felt a bit afraid that the monkey would jump at us and scratch us. Fortunately, it did not attack us. The trail was surrounded by trees which gave quite a lot of shade. We went to multiple beaches to look at the view and to rest at one beach we found some fishes swimming in the sea and even a stingray! I was surprised and shocked at what I saw as I had never seen a stingray in Singapore. We walked for what felt like forever, my legs felt like jelly and felt weak in my knees. We stopped by a dam and Mr Cheong talked about what a dam is and what it does. When we got to the lunch destination, we immediately dropped our bags and sat down on the floor. After we got to our corner, we started to eat our lunch and share our food with our members. The sixers also had their six corners to talk their six about badges and being punctual. After our lunch, we gathered together and started to sing songs. 

Not long, we had to start walking back to our starting point. On our way back, we had a lot of breaks in between the hike as we were very reluctant to walk back and really tired. When we were walking past 711, Raksha bought us all drinks for us we thanked him then went into the bus to go home. I was very tired yet very happy as I had completed an 8km hike today.