Gallery

This is a selection of images from the more than 250 photographs in SINGAPORE WATERS - Unveiling Our Seas, from the chapters in the book that they come from.

Click on the image to see a larger picture.

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There Was A Time
       
  New Year Regatta
1908		  

Coral harvest

Souvenir trade

   Sawfish catch
1965		   Kelong repairs
Giant fish traps, 1985
               

Seas Of Change
         
  Natural coastline
Singapore, 1950s		  

Reclamation

A new coastline

   Enhanced coastline
Singapore, 2002		    
               

Soggy Forest
       
 

Rhizopora roots

Support in the mud

   Mangrove sapling
Adapted to root quickly		   Giant Mudskipper
A fish that walks		   Fiddler Crab
Waving attracts females
               

Shore Things
       
  Labrador Park
Sandy & rockybeaches 		  Sand dollar
On sand and mudflats		   Sea hare
A fist-sized sea slug		  

Stonefish

An ambush hunter
               

Sea Gardens

       
  Boergenesia
A common seaweed		   Caulerpa
A single-celled plant		   Red Seaweed
Dramatic colour		   Mermaid's Fan
Another common sight
               

Wings & Waves
       
  Striated Heron
Resident here		   Common Sandpiper
A winter visitor		   Collared Kingfisher
Easily recognised		   Brahminy Kite
A familiar coastal bird
               

Into The Deep
       
  Bubble coral
Compact folds		   Anemone coral
Close up of polyps		   Fan and Fish
Sea fans & their denizens		   Frogfish
Master of camouflage
 
       
  Nudibranch
One of many sea slugs		   Cushion Star
Close up of centre		   Spotted Eagle Ray
An uncommon visitor		  

Bottlenose Dolphin

Off the southern islands
               
 
 
 
 

©  Marine Conservation Group, Nature Society (Singapore), November 2003