7th ICC Singapore 1998 - Sungei Buloh East

7th International Coastal Cleanup Singapore 1998
Sungei Buloh East mangroves


A nightjar watches quizzically	Mission: to let this mangrove breathe once again!	As it rained, it got darker and darker!	The area was divided into quadrats	Teams of 3-4 tackled a quadrat

The trash was part new part historical	Damsels amongst the Hisbiscus	The quadrats had different "loads".	Besides trash were rain, ants, and thorns	Working through thick vegetation

The strand line has the most trash	Red and white tape marked out the quadrats	What a clean site!	Loaders - strong guys who carried out the heaviest bags and truck tires!	It got really cold despite the hard work

Veteran coordinators work as hard as the rest!	Trash bags fashioned as raincoats!	Heavy gloves for the bits of metal and glass	Wet but not miserable	Trooping out eventually...

The tide had started coming in	And it got deeper...	Clutching precious bags of trash as they waded out	And odds and ens	Meandering through the Mud Lobster mounds

Bedraggled specimens by the end of the walk	Hauling the rubbish onto the broadwalk at Sungei Buloh Nature Park	Even abandoned drums were hauled out!	Quite a reach, and luckily there was a hefty man to help us	After the trash, now the colunteers get out onto relatively dry land!

The chain gang passed the trash bags out to wheelbarrows	Everyone's out and on their way back to a change of clothes	Guides and Park officers make a last check and contemplate the relieved mangroves